Religion and the African American Experience

Various factors contribute to religion practices and preferences. These factors can be demographic, economical, social or even lack thereof. It can be found that traditional West African religion has undergone much subtraction and addition in its making of a religion. It can also be found that it went through this process as it assembled in Latin and North America. Traditional West African religion was an essential part of life to every person from West Africa. …

…slave on both continents. Religion was an aspect of life, musically, demographically, economically, and socially. Religion is what gave most slaves identity. Works Cited 1. Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. Oxford University Press NY, 1978. 2. Small, Christopher. Music of the Common Tongue. River run Press NY, 1987. 3. Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Religion and Black Radicalism. 2nd.ed. Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY, 1983. 4. Mbiti, John S. African Religions & Philosophy. Heinemann International, Oxford London, 1969.