Spirits, blood, and drums

Description:

"Valuable, well-presented study examines background, rites and ceremonies, and social organization of Orisha religion, 'arguably the most purely African cultural practice left on the island.' However, worshipers combine, in varying degrees, elements from five traditions - African, Catholic, Hindu, Protestant, and Kabbalah - to form an 'Afro-American religious complex.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

subjects: Religion,  Orisha religion,  Blacks,  Blacks, religion,  Blacks, trinidad and tobago,  Trinidad and tobago, social conditions,  Black people

People: James T. Houk (1955-)

Places: Trinidad and Tobago