Sentence:  <WSD>Bwiti</WSD> is a new religious movement found among the Fang and Metsogo peoples of Gabon in equatorial West Africa. This ecstatic, syncretic cult, influenced by the Bieri ancestral cult and Christian evangelism, has been characterized as a reformative movement and as a dynamic form of resistance and response to colonialism (Fernandez 1982). The polymorphous <WSD>Bwiti</WSD> religion is spread throughout Fang territory, but chapels are relatively autonomous, and there is little organization beyond that found at the level of individual villages (Fernandez 1972). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A syncretistic religion and spiritual discipline practised in Gabon and Cameroon.