African Diaspora

The African diaspora has enriched many religions that have been influenced by its culture, these religions were made by these people for their people, who have been transplanted to the Americans and Caribbean with the enslavement of Africans. When these enslaved Africans were brought to their host land by the Europeans, they brought their beliefs and spirits along with them. African- derived religions are both a central and a rural phenomenon, religion’s like Vodou, Santería and Candomble usually involve deities, divine spirits and the dead, which are incorporating the elements of spiritualism and Christianity. The continent of Africa has been home to hundreds of native tribes speaking various languages and being to their new home various …show more content…
The Africans that practiced, Vodou, Santería, and Candomble in the Caribbean and South America, continued practicing these old traditions they knew from their homeland, Paul Gilroy, says they keep these traditions and spread them to the host land and augmented these practices with new ones. These religions usually involve deities, divine spirits and the dead had a major influence in the religion, also incorporating the influences of spiritualism and Christianity. Since these enslaved Africans had Christian European owners, there owners forbade the practices of their “pagan” religious and they had to adopt their new world beliefs and converted to Christianity, with knowing that this conversion wasn’t going to allow them to be free. They began mixing their religious beliefs with their new-found Christianity, disgusting their practices in the process, Catholicism help these practitioners hide their deities and divine sprits in Catholic saints. especially since these African Derived religions have a very strong connection to the homeland and ancestry they still harbor their African cultures in