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In addition to being taken through the Middle Passage to the New World, to such locales as Brazil and Trinidad, the belief may also have been brought by enslaved West Africans to what became the United States and syncretized in Southern Black religious attitudes to spirits, (ab)normal births, and to life, death, and reincarnation. In the US mainland, the Filipino Americans' immediate location, colonial discourses are syncretized into a culture that advocates their assimilation. Syncretized elements that have been taken from this system and combined with other West African traditions, Native American beliefs and Euro-centric Christian beliefs and liturgies can be found among persons of African descent throughout the Americas in the following religions: Santeria (Puerto Rico, Cuba, New York and Miami); Candomble, Umbanda, and Macumba (Brazil); Vodun (Haiti); and Lucumi (Cuba). |
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