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Afro-American religions (also known as African diasporic religions or New World traditions) are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among enslaved Africans in various countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, and parts of the southern United States. They derive from African traditional religions (especially of West and Central Africa) and Indigenous American traditions and beliefs.
These religions involve ancestor veneration and a pantheon of divine spirits, such as the Orisha, loa, Nkisi, and Alusi. In addition to mixing these various African traditions, many New World religions incorporate elements of Christian, Indigenous American, Kardecist, Spiritualist, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Judaic, and European traditions. This mixing of traditions is known as religious syncretism.
Other closely related regional faiths include:
Most new religious movements are void of these traditional pre-Abrahamic African beliefs. A first wave of such movements originated in the early twentieth century:
A second wave of new movements originated in the 1960s to 1970s, in the context of the emergence of New Age and Neopaganism in the United States:
Puerto Rico, Christianity, Afro-Caribbean, Santería, Afro-Latin American
African diaspora, Afro-Mexican, African American, Afro-Caribbean, Puerto Rico