The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an African-American Religion by Andrew J. Kaslow, Claude F. Jacobs

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

Andrew J. Kaslow, Claude F. Jacobs

235 pages • first pub 1992 (view editions)

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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 Umband...

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