Lewis remarks (93) on "Christianized slave cults of the Caribbean and South America"
in those regions we now find "flourishing possession cults built round a cosmological substratum of the old gods of Africa, which the slaves brought with them""
> from I. M. Lewis' Ecstatic Religion (2002)
> tagged with #ecstasy, #syncretism, #slavery
> created Feb 20, 2025 at 12:04:40 PM
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