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This essay discusses how African-derived religious traditions have been shaped by the African diaspora, and how this has led to the creation of religious meaning unique to the African-descended communities in the diaspora.
Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation.
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