by Daniel Nkado
Catholic Church leaders felt it was of import to convert enslaved Africans.
They believed this would fulfill their religious obligations too Pb the enslaved to last to a greater extent than submissive inward their status.
Some historians advise that Africans were forced to surrender their traditional religions to cutting their ties to their pasts.
Although the Church succeeded inward many cases, non all slaves converted.
Many outwardly expert Christianity simply secretly prayed to their ain God, gods, or ancestor spirits.
In to a greater extent than or less cases, they combined beliefs too practices from their original religions amongst elements of Roman Catholicism to make integrated religions which till this solar daytime are nevertheless flourishing inward parts of the Caribbean, South America too North America.
E.g. The Candomblé practised inward Brazil has rigid Yoruba origins.
The Obeah of Jamaica is said to bring originated from Igbo slaves of West Africa.
Another instance is the Abakuá, practised inward Cuba, which has Efik origins.
Most of these religions are polytheistic inward nature, involving the worship of or belief inward multiple deities, which are unremarkably assembled into a pantheon of gods too goddesses, along amongst their private rituals too practises.
The original religions of Africa bring been declining over the past times century due to the influences of colonialism, Western acculturation too proselytizing past times Christianity too Islam.
However, inward the Americas too Caribbean, merger religions involving African religions are growing rapidly.
Slaves came from a break of African geographic regions too ethnic groups, including Igbo, Yoruba, Fon, Ewe, Kongo, too Bantu.
Slave handlers classified them past times the shore of embarkment, too thus records of ethnicity may non bring been accurate, every bit captives were oft transported overland away from native areas earlier beingness loaded on ships.
Different religions developed semi-independently inward dissimilar regions of their novel lands, amid dissimilar African ethnic groups, too evolved into several "branches" or nations, too thus to say, instantly distinguished chiefly past times their prepare of worshiped deities, every bit good every bit the music too linguistic communication used inward the rituals.
For a people who bring been stripped of everything they owned, their spirituality must bring felt similar their solely remaining agency of expressing who they are! Their solely truthful identity left.
Little wonder organized religious belief became 1 of the main spurs of resistances. The captives would appeal to their gods for protection too vengeance upon their captors, too would every bit good seek to curse too otherwise terms the ship's crew using their idols too fetishes.
Women were said to last specially obstinate inward their belief that their gods would come upward too salvage them.
One crew was said to bring in 1 lawsuit flora 'magical objects' inward their H2O supply, placed past times slaves who believed they would kill all who drank from it.
In the plantations, slaves faced severe penalty if caught help hugger-mugger religious gatherings, because the slaveholders believed such meetings could Pb to an organized rebellion.
From this came the quest to tame them amongst a to a greater extent than slavery-loving religion: Christianity.
Many slaveholders granted their slaves permission to attend church, too to a greater extent than or less openly encouraged religious meetings amid the slaves where teachings near submission too obedience were emphasized.
Baptisms, marriages, too funerals were allowed to slaves on to a greater extent than or less plantations amongst whites observing too occasionally participating.
Annual revival meetings were social occasions for the slaves every bit good every bit their white slavers.
Masters were known to savor the singing, praying, too preaching of their slaves.
Nevertheless, at the marrow of the slaves’ organized religious belief was a private place.
For no affair how religious the master copy mightiness be, the slave knew that the master’s organized religious belief did non give whatever shape of blessing to prayers for his slaves’ freedom. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
Catholic Church leaders felt it was of import to convert enslaved Africans.
They believed this would fulfill their religious obligations too Pb the enslaved to last to a greater extent than submissive inward their status.
Some historians advise that Africans were forced to surrender their traditional religions to cutting their ties to their pasts.
Although the Church succeeded inward many cases, non all slaves converted.
Many outwardly expert Christianity simply secretly prayed to their ain God, gods, or ancestor spirits.
In to a greater extent than or less cases, they combined beliefs too practices from their original religions amongst elements of Roman Catholicism to make integrated religions which till this solar daytime are nevertheless flourishing inward parts of the Caribbean, South America too North America.
E.g. The Candomblé practised inward Brazil has rigid Yoruba origins.
The Obeah of Jamaica is said to bring originated from Igbo slaves of West Africa.
Another instance is the Abakuá, practised inward Cuba, which has Efik origins.
Most of these religions are polytheistic inward nature, involving the worship of or belief inward multiple deities, which are unremarkably assembled into a pantheon of gods too goddesses, along amongst their private rituals too practises.
The original religions of Africa bring been declining over the past times century due to the influences of colonialism, Western acculturation too proselytizing past times Christianity too Islam.
However, inward the Americas too Caribbean, merger religions involving African religions are growing rapidly.
Slaves came from a break of African geographic regions too ethnic groups, including Igbo, Yoruba, Fon, Ewe, Kongo, too Bantu.
Slave handlers classified them past times the shore of embarkment, too thus records of ethnicity may non bring been accurate, every bit captives were oft transported overland away from native areas earlier beingness loaded on ships.
Different religions developed semi-independently inward dissimilar regions of their novel lands, amid dissimilar African ethnic groups, too evolved into several "branches" or nations, too thus to say, instantly distinguished chiefly past times their prepare of worshiped deities, every bit good every bit the music too linguistic communication used inward the rituals.
For a people who bring been stripped of everything they owned, their spirituality must bring felt similar their solely remaining agency of expressing who they are! Their solely truthful identity left.
Little wonder organized religious belief became 1 of the main spurs of resistances. The captives would appeal to their gods for protection too vengeance upon their captors, too would every bit good seek to curse too otherwise terms the ship's crew using their idols too fetishes.
Women were said to last specially obstinate inward their belief that their gods would come upward too salvage them.
One crew was said to bring in 1 lawsuit flora 'magical objects' inward their H2O supply, placed past times slaves who believed they would kill all who drank from it.
In the plantations, slaves faced severe penalty if caught help hugger-mugger religious gatherings, because the slaveholders believed such meetings could Pb to an organized rebellion.
From this came the quest to tame them amongst a to a greater extent than slavery-loving religion: Christianity.
Many slaveholders granted their slaves permission to attend church, too to a greater extent than or less openly encouraged religious meetings amid the slaves where teachings near submission too obedience were emphasized.
Baptisms, marriages, too funerals were allowed to slaves on to a greater extent than or less plantations amongst whites observing too occasionally participating.
Annual revival meetings were social occasions for the slaves every bit good every bit their white slavers.
Masters were known to savor the singing, praying, too preaching of their slaves.
Nevertheless, at the marrow of the slaves’ organized religious belief was a private place.
For no affair how religious the master copy mightiness be, the slave knew that the master’s organized religious belief did non give whatever shape of blessing to prayers for his slaves’ freedom. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/