Ancient African Religion and the African-American Church
- ISBN-10
- 0933184018
- ISBN-13
- 9780933184015
- Category
- Religion / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal
- Pages
- 158
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Flame International
- Author
- Ulysses Duke Jenkins
Description
View of original African spiritual practices that endure in the contemporary African American church. Discussion of the extent to which African American religion draws upon African religion in its diverse forms. Despite the presence of Africanisms in African American religion, such as the call-and-response pattern characteristic of black preaching, it is evident that no single African culture or religion could have been diffused intact to North America. African religious concepts and rituals, such as ancestor worship, initiation rites, spirit possession, healing and funeral rituals, magical rituals for obtaining spiritual power, and ecstatic ceremonies enlivened by rhythmic dancing, drumming, and singing, are found in African American religion but generally in syncretized ways, blended with diverse European American elements.
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