See Also: Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American religions(encyclopedia)
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pseudomelanosis(medicine)
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Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American religions (sh) and pseudomelanosis (medicine)


Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-American religions (sh)




Religions among persons of African ancestry in the Caribbean, Brazil, and U.S. These include Haitian vodun, the Jamaican Rastafarian movement, Santeria, and Candomble and Other Macumba sects in Brazil.

Similarly syncretistic religions appeared in the U.S. during the era of slavery. The Nation of Islam combines black nationalism with an unorthodox version of Islam. Black Protestant churches (especially Baptist and Pentecostal) have imported some forms of lively worship from Africa.


pseudomelanosis (medicine)


pseudomelanosis


A dark greenish or blackish postmortem discoloration of the surface of the abdominal viscera, resulting from the action of sulfureted hydrogen upon the iron of disintegrated haemoglobin.

Origin: pseudo-+ G. Melas, black