The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an African American

by Claude F. Jacobs and Andrew J. Kaslow

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The New Orleans Spiritual churches constitute a distinctive African-American belief system. Influenced by Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, and Voodoo, the group is a New World syncretic faith, similar to Espiritismo, Santeria, and Umbanda. The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans combines a historical account of the emergence of this religion with careful ethnographic description of current congregations. At the same time, text and photographs...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1572331488

ISBN13:9781572331488

Release Date:November 2001

Publisher:Univ Tennessee Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Cultural Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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