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    3. "Strangers in a new land": Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban religious tradition in the diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nodal,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations
    Notes:
    247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”

    6. A questão ancestral: Africa negra

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Leite, Fábio Rubens da Rocha (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    São Paulo, Brazil: Palas Athena
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    385 p., The study is not a work about religion but rather of black African identity. Leaning on three black African societies (Yoruba of Benin and Nigeria, Agni-Akan and Senufo Ivory Coast), the author investigates the notion of person. Faced with the question of death, passing moment of earthly existence of man to his condition.

    7. African Religions: A Symposium

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Booth,Newell S. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1977
    Published:
    New York: Nok Publishers International
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    390 p

    8. African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Olupona,Jacob Obafemi Kehinde (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    New York: Crossroad
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    476 p, Includes Rudolph Eastman and Maureen Warner Lewis' "Forms of African Spirituality in Trinidad and Tobago," pp. 403-415

    9. African creative expressions of the divine

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Davis,Kortright (Editor) and Farajajé-Jones, (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1991
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Howard University School of Divinity
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    257 p., Includes Jean A. Callender's "African survivals in Caribbean religion : a select bibliography," pp. 199-252.