The first extended a process that began with the African initial contact with European Christianity, whereby the religion was steadily Africanized both liturgically as well as theologically. ![]() ![]() According to historian Michael Gomez, the black populations of the Americas during this period included three different groups that could be distinguished by their positions in relation to Christianity: ![]() Following the activities of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), both groups adopted religious approaches to the sociopolitical issues of the era. The Afro-Jamaican Rastafarians and the African American Nation of Islam (NOI) are two nationalist religious groups that both emerged in urban centers in the Americas during the early 1930s.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |