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[5] [6] Scholars define Hoodoo as a folk religion. Some practice Hoodoo as an autonomous religion, some practice as a syncretic religion between two or more cultural religions, in this case being African indigenous spirituality and Abrahamic religion. [7] [8] Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of the Bakongo people of Central Africa. [9]
The syncretist religion Louisiana Voodoo has traditionally been practiced by Creoles of color and African-Americans in Louisiana, [64] while Hoodoo is a system of beliefs and rituals historically associated with Gullah and Black Seminoles. Hoodoo and Voudou are active religions in African-American communities in the United States, and there is ...
The minister threw away the mojo bag; when he did, people stopped coming to his church. These written accounts showed that African Americans who identified as Christian continued to believe and practice African spirituality and some African American Christians relied on Hoodoo when experiencing tough times in life. [49]
Hoodoo is a spiritual tradition defined by scholars as a folk religion was created by enslaved African Americans during slavery in colonial America for their protection against their enslavers. The practice combines influences from West and Central Africa that was synchronized with Christianity .
“(Vodou) seems dark because people don’t understand it. But at some point, all religions were dark until someone said that they weren’t.”
A symbol of the religion, [346] the drum is perhaps the most sacred item in Vodou. [347] Vodouists believe that ritual drums contain an etheric force, the nanm, [348] and a spirit called ountò. [349] Specific ceremonies accompany the construction of a drum so that it is considered suitable for ritual use. [350]
Haitian Vodou, a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti Haitian Vodou in Cuba; Hoodoo (spirituality), sometimes called Gullah Voodoo or Lowcountry Voodoo; Louisiana Voodoo, or New Orleans Voodoo, a set of African-based spiritual folkways; Trinidadian Vodunu, a syncretic religion practiced in Trinidad and Tobago
African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Southern United States. They derive from traditional African religions with some influence from other religious traditions, notably Christianity and Islam ...