The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an African American

by Claude F. Jacobs and Andrew J. Kaslow

Book Overview

The New Orleans Spiritual churches constitute a distinctive African-American belief system. Influenced by Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, and Voodoo, the group is a New World syncretic faith, similar to Espiritismo, Santeria, and Umbanda. The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans combines a historical account of the emergence of this religion with careful ethnographic description of current congregations. At the same time, text and photographs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572331488
• ISBN13: 9781572331488
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"