SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Religion In Africa, Pantheism, Syncretism
1 Sep 2014
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It includes the study of signs, analogy, symbolism and closely related to the field of linguistics. Syncretism (syncretic) - a religious system that is a product of two or more distinct religions. Ex: sikhism comes from northern india, punjab area that sits between. Punjab is a liminal area but is distinctly neither its own religion almost every modern religion has a point of syncretism. Middle passage bight of bemba the term we use for transportation of enslaved western africans to what is the. & technology the europeans had: brought to cuba & hispanola and forgers would make papers that showed legitimate documents, brazil had the largest enslaved population, over 2 million people were sold to the americas. Santeria possession religion but not everyone gets possessed: cuba (doesn"t have a main religion but doesn"t suppress it either), Dominican republic, mexico, miami (because of cubans that were refugees), american southwest: yoruba (largest ethnic group in nigeria today) + spanish roman.
