By Dianne M. Stewart
Reports of African-derived non secular traditions have as a rule fascinated with their retention of African components. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways that groups within the African diaspora have created and shaped non secular that means. during this fieldwork-based learn Stewart indicates that African humans were brokers in their personal spiritual, ritual, and theological formation.
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