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    1. "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.”

    3. 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. The African-Caribbean worldview and the making of Caribbean society

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Levy,Horace (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    248 p., Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.