 afro-american religions (also known as african diasporic religions or new world traditions) are a number of related religions that developed in the americas among enslaved africans in various countries of latin america, the caribbean, and parts of the southern united states. they derive from african traditional religions (especially of west and central africa) and indigenous american traditions and beliefs. == characteristics == these religions involve ancestor veneration and a pantheon of divine spirits, such as the orisha, loa, nkisi, and alusi. in addition to mixing these various african traditions, many new world religions incorporate elements of christian, indigenous american, kardecist, spiritualist, hindu, buddhist, islamic, judaic, and european traditions. this mixing of traditions is known as religious syncretism. ==list of traditions== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! colspan=5 align=center bgcolor=#ccccff|afro-american religions |- !width=125|religion||width=130|location||||also practiced in||remarks |- |candomblÃ©||brazil||yoruba || argentina, colombia, uruguay, venezuela, united states || some elements of dahomey vodun, kongo nkisi, indigenous american beliefs, and roman catholicism. |- |umbanda||brazil||yoruba || argentina, uruguay, united states||mixture of yoruba orisha with the veneration of bantu's ancestral spirits (preto velho) and indigenous american's ancestral spirits (caboclos and caciques), spiritism, and roman catholic syncretism. |- |quimbanda||brazil||kongo||argentina, uruguay, united states||veneration of spirits called exu and pomba gira. |- |santerÃ­a||cuba||yoruba|| argentina, brazil, colombia, dominican republic, mexico, panama, puerto rico, united states, uruguay, venezuela || indigenous american and roman catholic syncretism. |- |regla de ararÃ¡||cuba||fon, ewe||dominican republic, puerto rico, united states||&nbsp; |- |regla de palo||cubafor an extended discussion on palo's history, see: dodson, jualynne e. (2008). sa
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