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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A comprehensive introduction to the Caribbean’s African-based religions<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439900406&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Afro-Caribbean Religions</h1>
<H2>An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions</H2>
<h3>Nathaniel Samuel Murrell</h3>
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<BR> 440 pp
6x9
4 map(s) 1 figure 9 halftones
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</i>Afro-Caribbean Religions<i> is an excellent book—richly informative, well researched and well organized. Murrell explains complex religions in accessible language and successfully informs the reader about the content and history of the religions that are so respectfully presented here. It is truly an enjoyable read, in which one learns something new on virtually every page. I expect </i>Afro-Caribbean Religions<i> to receive an enthusiastic reception among students and professors alike for many years to come.</i>"<br><b>—Dr. Terry Rey</b>, Associate Professor and Chair of Religion at Temple University</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In <i>Afro-Caribbean Religions</i>, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell provides a comprehensive study that respectfully traces the social, historical, and political contexts of these religions. And, because Brazil has the largest African population in the world outside of Africa, and has historic ties to the Caribbean, Murrell includes a section on Candomble, Umbanda, Xango, and Batique.
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This accessibly written introduction to Afro-Caribbean religions examines the cultural traditions and transformations of all of the African-derived religions of the Caribbean along with their cosmology, beliefs, cultic structures, and ritual practices. Ideal for classroom use, <i>Afro-Caribbean Religions</i> also includes a glossary defining unfamiliar terms and identifying key figures. </p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"Murrell has produced a very useful and long overdue introduction to African Caribbean religious traditions. His synthesis of a wide-range of scholarship on African Brazilian traditions, Haitian Vodou, and Rastafari is especially impressive. The categorization of topics is well executed, and the presentation of traditions is carefully laid out in a structure that is thematically cohesive and allows readers to connect the content and arguments across each chapter. I expect that Murrell's book will commend itself as a classic over time in the field, especially given the dearth of comprehensive publications on African Caribbean religions"</i>
<br>—<b>Dianne Stewart Diakité</b>, Associate Professor of Religion, Emory University
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<H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1634_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Nathaniel Samuel Murrell</b> is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the co-editor of <i><a href="1244_reg.html" target="_top">Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader</a></i> (Temple).</P></td></tr></table>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/latin.html" TARGET="_top">Latin American/Caribbean Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/african_studies.html" TARGET="_top">African Studies</a>
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