USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [WoleSoyinkaSociety] Afro-Cuban religions: YORUBA or KONGO ? or KONGO-YORUBA ?

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From: nzita nanzita nzitananzita@yahoo.co.uk [WoleSoyinkaSociety] <WoleSoyinkaSociety@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 3 October 2016 at 01:37
Subject: [WoleSoyinkaSociety] Afro-Cuban religions: YORUBA or KONGO ? or KONGO-YORUBA ?
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Author: Thornton, John

The Kingdom of Kongo and Palo Mayombe: Reflections on an African-American Religion

Abstract

Historical scholarship on Afro-Cuban religions has long recognized that one of its salient characteristics is the union of African (Yoruba) gods with Catholic Saints. But in so doing, it has usually considered the Cuban Catholic church as the source of the saints and the syncretism to be the result of the worshippers hiding worship of the gods behind the saints. This article argues that the source of the saints was more likely to be from Catholics from the Kingdom of Kongo which had been Catholic for 300 years and had made its own form of Christianity in the interim.

Source: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0144039X.2015.1103524

Historical scholarship on Afro-Cuban religions has long recognized that one of its salient characteristics is the union of African (Yoruba) gods with Catholic Saints. But in so doing, it has usually considered the Cuban Catholic church as the source of the saints and the syncretism to be the result of the worshippers hiding worship of the gods behind the saints. This article argues that the source of the saints was more likely to be from Catholics from the Kingdom of Kongo which had been Catholic for 300 years and had made its own form of Christianity in the interim.

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