Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
6. How can spiritual traditions create Indigenous traditions in new places?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Ras Michael Brown [+]
Georgia State University
Ras Michael Brown is an associate professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University. His research and teaching interests engage the long historical development of religions and cultures in the African Diaspora. He has written numerous articles on early African/American communities and their spiritual cultures, and his book African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry (Cambridge University Press, 2012) was honored as the inaugural recipient of the “Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions” in 2013.
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Captive Africans dispersed throughout the Americas understood indigeneity as a process of spiritual transformation that linked displaced people to new places of habitation. Their relationships with native/nature spirits enabled them to create new Indigenous traditions that rooted their communities and allowed them to become spiritually indigenous in the lands of their captivity.