Hi, I’m John Green, welcome to Crash Course Religions. So, in 1791, the enslaved people of Haiti started a revolution and when it culminated in 1804, Haiti became an independent state — the ...

African culture and religion were, therefore, central to the Maroon communities. It should also be noted that many of the slave revolts in the New World were started by Africans who had been born ...

Traditional African religions have significantly influenced the development and expression of Christian thought, both in early Christianity (particularly in North Africa) ...

Thousands of devotees of different African-based religions on Friday flocked to the waterfront of the Uruguayan capital, part of an annual Feb. 2 offering to the Yoruba goddess of fertility and ...

Research by Uruguayan sociologist Victoria Sotelo at the University of the Republic found that the numbers practicing an African-based religion in the country have more than doubled in 12 years ...