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Afro‐Catholicism in Latin America
Author(s) -
Selka Stephen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/rec3.12315
Subject(s) - latin americans , variety (cybernetics) , african descent , scope (computer science) , ethnography , gender studies , latin american studies , ethnology , sociology , anthropology , history , political science , law , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
This article provides a historical and ethnographic overview of Afro‐Catholicism in Latin America. For the purposes of this article, ”Afro‐Catholicism” encompasses the wide variety of ways that people of African descent have practiced or engaged with Catholicism. Much of the article focuses on Brazil, but it also draws on the literature on Afro‐Catholicism in Haiti and Cuba both to highlight similarities and differences throughout Latin America and to foreground the necessarily transnational scope of this topic.