MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Thousands of devotees of different African-based religions on Friday flocked to the waterfront of the Uruguayan capital, part of an annual Feb. 2 offering to the Yoruba goddess ...

Christianity is linked to slavery and colonialism but it does not change the fact that traditional religions have some inhumane practices. In it, he explained that African-Americans are dumping ...

HAVANA (AP) — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside ...

Sibley went home and decided to conduct her own ancestral veneration, mixed with tarot and Neopaganism. She said she would ...

Introduction : African traditions in the study of religion in Africa / Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame, Bolaji Bateye -- ch. 1. African religions in African scholarship : a critique / Umar Habila Dadem ...

Believe it or not, Africa is deeply rooted in religion, so much that it has a major influence on lifestyle, arts, culture and tradition of the people in the continent. There are so many diverse ...

For a century, more than 519 sacred objects from the Umbanda and Candomblé—two religions with African origins—were in the possession of Brazil police. This possession and the fight to return these ...

The devil, satan or Lucifer is an imported religious concept from Europe. In African religion, good and bad spirits exist, but only as impersonalised spiritual forces. In Christianity and Islam, that ...

The Varieties of Religious Therapy (VRT) blog series features representatives from twelve belief systems discussing how they integrate faith with their approach to psychotherapy. This installment is ...

(RNS) — Albert J. Raboteau, an American religion historian who helped students and journalists enhance their understanding of African American religion, has died. The scholar died on Saturday (Sept.