The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts Indigenous Fenton Johnson

Fenton Johnson

I believe in you so

and the Black church

the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy becomes too enticing to resist

Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry

The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts Indigenous Fenton JohnsonAn introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions. Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization. In the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the guiding concepts of the Yoruba spiritual tradition took root in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. In