The Yoruba Faith
The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly Language... They all speak Yoruba.
In present day West Africa, the main countries where Yoruba speaking people live are Nigeria, Togo and Benin. These countries are very close together.
Many years ago, before African slavery, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa.
During the period of African Slavery, from the late 1500's to the late 1800's, millions of Yoruba people were forcibly taken out of Africa. Their numbers dwindled and so did their land area. After Slavery, the European powers (i.e.) the British; French; Dutch; Spanish and Portuguese, cut up the continent of Africa into different pieces and imposed new countries and languages in Africa.
The Yoruba people suffered greatly, they were divided. Their people were scattered all over the Americas. They now spoke many different languages...Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and Portuguese.

Yoruba Culture in the Americas

During the period of African slavery, millions of African peoples including the Yoruba, were forcibly brought here to the Americas. The Yoruba and many other African peoples (see the chart above) worked as slaves, or forced labor on the plantations of different European nations:

The Spanish plantations in South America, Central America, Cuba, Hispaniola.
The British plantations in the English speaking Caribbean.
The American plantations in the American South.
The Dutch plantations in the Dutch Caribbean and South America.
The French plantations in the Caribbean .. especially Haiti..
As slaves, the Yoruba people were no longer free. They were not allowed to practice their religion, play on their drums, which was integral to their worship, or engage in any other religious Yoruba practice. They were forced into European religions which were Catholicism and other forms of Christianity.
Far away from home, the Yoruba had only themselves and what was in their hearts...their religion...their God.
What is significant about the Yoruba people is that they kept their religion hidden under the guise of Catholicism, or Protestantism. Whatever religion was forced upon them, they accepted but the Yoruba religion was carried inside of those Christian religions.
Not only did the Yoruba people survive slavery, but the Yoruba religion survived as well.
Yoruba civilization has had a significant impact on the culture and make up of Latin America, in particular, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Most of the Yoruba in today's America, originated from what is today's Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
Modern Yoruba beliefs in Africa will be slightly different from what is practiced in the Americas because of centuries of influence with Christianity. While the basic religious beliefs remain the same, the religion is now a fusion of authentic Yoruba from Africa; indigenous native (Indian) beliefs and Christianity from Europe.
Basic Yoruba belief involves ritual practices such as singing, dancing, drumming, spirit possession, ritual healing, respect for ancestors and divination.
Originally prohibited from practicing African religions, slaves and free people of color mostly frequented the Catholic churches but they carried their African beliefs and over the centuries worked both religions together into one. Most of its adherents came from West and Central Africa.
Today in the year 2002, a full eighty percent of Latin America practice Syncretic Yoruba religions. While the religion is called differently in different countries... it is basically the same Yoruba religion.

Modern Western Orisha / Yoruba Worship
Cuban Santeria; Hatian Vodun (voodoo); Brizilian Candomble; Trinidad and Tobago Shango are all Yoruba or Orisha based.
All of these religions are African derived religions having different names in different countries. They combine beliefs from the Kabbalah and Yoruba speaking peoples of West/Central Africa, with elements of Catholicism or Anglicanism. Even some Hinduism is included in Trinidad, because of the East Indian influence in that country.
The foundation of this religion is interaction between human beings and a group of spirits called "Orishas". Each Orisha is associated with particular ideas, objects or natural phenomena. For example the Orisha Shango is associated with thunder and fertility. The Orishas make appearances at religious celebrations through possession trance of Orisha believers. This religion also emphasize continual feeding and supplication to the dieties or Orishas. When one is possessed by an Orisha, one speaks and behaves as though one were that Orisha.
Western Syncretic Religion & Countries

Canboulay/ Candomble / Santeria / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ................Brazil
Canboulay/ Candomble / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ...........................Columbia
Santeria/ (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism)...... ............................................................Cuba
Voodoo/ Vodun / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ......................................................Haiti
Shango/ Obeah / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ...............................................Trinidad
Pocomania/ Rastafarian/ (Yoruba Faith & Anglicanism) ...............................Jamaica
Christianity / Obeah (Yoruba Faith & Anglicanism) ...........,,,......................Barbados
Christianity............................................................................................................St.Vincent
Christianity...............................................................................................................St. Lucia
Christianity (Some Yoruba ) ..........................................................................The U. S. A.

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The Yoruba Faith
The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly Language... They all speak Yoruba.
In present day West Africa, the main countries where Yoruba speaking people live are Nigeria, Togo and Benin. These countries are very close together.
Many years ago, before African slavery, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa.
During the period of African Slavery, from the late 1500's to the late 1800's, millions of Yoruba people were forcibly taken out of Africa. Their numbers dwindled and so did their land area. After Slavery, the European powers (i.e.) the British; French; Dutch; Spanish and Portuguese, cut up the continent of Africa into different pieces and imposed new countries and languages in Africa.
The Yoruba people suffered greatly, they were divided. Their people were scattered all over the Americas. They now spoke many different languages...Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and Portuguese.

Yoruba Culture in the Americas

During the period of African slavery, millions of African peoples including the Yoruba, were forcibly brought here to the Americas. The Yoruba and many other African peoples (see the chart above) worked as slaves, or forced labor on the plantations of different European nations:

The Spanish plantations in South America, Central America, Cuba, Hispaniola.
The British plantations in the English speaking Caribbean.
The American plantations in the American South.
The Dutch plantations in the Dutch Caribbean and South America.
The French plantations in the Caribbean .. especially Haiti..
As slaves, the Yoruba people were no longer free. They were not allowed to practice their religion, play on their drums, which was integral to their worship, or engage in any other religious Yoruba practice. They were forced into European religions which were Catholicism and other forms of Christianity.
Far away from home, the Yoruba had only themselves and what was in their hearts...their religion...their God.
What is significant about the Yoruba people is that they kept their religion hidden under the guise of Catholicism, or Protestantism. Whatever religion was forced upon them, they accepted but the Yoruba religion was carried inside of those Christian religions.
Not only did the Yoruba people survive slavery, but the Yoruba religion survived as well.
Yoruba civilization has had a significant impact on the culture and make up of Latin America, in particular, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Most of the Yoruba in today's America, originated from what is today's Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
Modern Yoruba beliefs in Africa will be slightly different from what is practiced in the Americas because of centuries of influence with Christianity. While the basic religious beliefs remain the same, the religion is now a fusion of authentic Yoruba from Africa; indigenous native (Indian) beliefs and Christianity from Europe.
Basic Yoruba belief involves ritual practices such as singing, dancing, drumming, spirit possession, ritual healing, respect for ancestors and divination.
Originally prohibited from practicing African religions, slaves and free people of color mostly frequented the Catholic churches but they carried their African beliefs and over the centuries worked both religions together into one. Most of its adherents came from West and Central Africa.
Today in the year 2002, a full eighty percent of Latin America practice Syncretic Yoruba religions. While the religion is called differently in different countries... it is basically the same Yoruba religion.

Modern Western Orisha / Yoruba Worship
Cuban Santeria; Hatian Vodun (voodoo); Brizilian Candomble; Trinidad and Tobago Shango are all Yoruba or Orisha based.
All of these religions are African derived religions having different names in different countries. They combine beliefs from the Kabbalah and Yoruba speaking peoples of West/Central Africa, with elements of Catholicism or Anglicanism. Even some Hinduism is included in Trinidad, because of the East Indian influence in that country.
The foundation of this religion is interaction between human beings and a group of spirits called "Orishas". Each Orisha is associated with particular ideas, objects or natural phenomena. For example the Orisha Shango is associated with thunder and fertility. The Orishas make appearances at religious celebrations through possession trance of Orisha believers. This religion also emphasize continual feeding and supplication to the dieties or Orishas. When one is possessed by an Orisha, one speaks and behaves as though one were that Orisha.
Western Syncretic Religion & Countries

Canboulay/ Candomble / Santeria / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ................Brazil
Canboulay/ Candomble / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ...........................Columbia
Santeria/ (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism)...... ............................................................Cuba
Voodoo/ Vodun / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ......................................................Haiti
Shango/[s] Obeah / (Yoruba Faith & Catholicism) ...............................................Trinidad[/s]
[s]Pocomania/ Rastafarian/ (Yoruba Faith & Anglicanism) ...............................Jamaica[/s]
[s]Christianity / Obeah (Yoruba Faith & Anglicanism) ...........,,,......................Barbados[/s]
Christianity............................................................................................................St.Vincent
Christianity...............................................................................................................St. Lucia
Christianity (Some Yoruba ) ..........................................................................The U. S. A.

Correction: Jamaican Obeah and Barbadian Obeah are Igbo/Ibibio/Akan syncretic and Jamaican Rastafarian is abrahamic.

OBEAH
Obeah (sometimes spelled Obi, Obea, or Obia),[1] is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, sorcery, and religious practices developed among West African slaves, specifically of Igbo origin.[2] Obeah is similar to other Afro-American religions including Palo, Vodou, Santería, and Hoodoo. Obeah is practiced in Suriname, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, Belize, The Bahamas, and other Caribbean nations.[3]

Obeah is associated with both benign and malignant magic, charms, luck, and with mysticism in general. In some Caribbean nations, Obeah refers to folk religions of the African diaspora. In some cases, aspects of these folk religions have survived through syncretism with Christian symbolism and practice introduced by European colonials and slave owners. Casual observation may conclude that Christian symbolism is incorporated into Obeah worship, but in fact may represent clandestine worship and religious protest.

During slavery, Obeah was directed against the European slave masters. However, with the rise of Christianity, Obeah is considered a taboo, and the term has pejorative associations.[4]

Origins
In parts of the Caribbean where Obeah existed, slaves were taken from a variety of African nations with differing spiritual practices and religions. It is from these arrivals and their spiritualisms that Obeah originates. The theory of origin that is most accepted and is supported by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute database[5] traces obeah to the dibia or obia (Igbo: doctoring)[6] traditions of the Igbo people.[7][8] Specialists in Obia (also spelled Obea) were known as Ndi Obia (Igbo: Obia people) and practised the same activities as the obeah men and women of the Caribbean like predicting the future and manufacturing charms.[2][9] Among the Igbo there were oracles known as ọbiạ which were said to be able to talk.[10] Parts of the Caribbean where Obeah was most active imported a large number of its slaves from the Igbo dominated Bight of Biafra.[5]

Obeah in Trinidad and Tobago
One aspect of Obeah that is familiar to Trinidad and Tobago, though not all other nations where Obeah is practiced, is the Moko-Jumbie, or stilt dancer. Moko was a common word for Ibibio slaves[citation needed]. In the Trinidad and Tobago Obeah tradition. A Douen is a child who has died before being baptized, and is said to be forced to forever walk the earth at night in English-speaking regions of the Caribbean. Jewelry is made from deadly toxic red and black seeds called jumbies, jumbie eyes or jumbie beads (seeds of Abrus precatorius containing the lethal AB toxin abrin) in the Caribbean and South America. By contrast, the moko-jumbie of Trinidad and Tobago is brightly colored, dances in the daylight, and is very much alive. The moko-jumbie also represents the flip side of spiritual darkness, as stilt-dancing is most popular around holy days and Carnival.

Rastafarian Movement
The Rastafari movement is an Abrahamic religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974), some as Jesus in his Second Advent, or as God the Father.[1] Members of the Rastafari way of life are known as Rastas, Rastafarians or Ras. The way of life is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism", but this term is considered offensive by most Rastafarians, who, being critical of "isms" (which they see as a typical part of Babylon culture), dislike being labelled as an "ism" themselves.[2]

The name Rastafari is taken from Ras Tafari, the title (Ras) and first name (Tafari Makonnen) of Haile Selassie I before his coronation. In Amharic, Ras, literally "head", is an Ethiopian title equivalent to prince or chief, while the personal given name Täfäri (teferi) means one who is respected or feared. Jah is a Biblical name of God, from a shortened form of Jahweh or Jehovah found in Psalms 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible. Most adherents see Haile Selassie I as Jah or Jah Rastafari, an incarnation of God the Father, the Second Advent of Christ "the Anointed One", i.e. the Second Coming of Jesus Christ the King to Earth.

Many elements of Rastafari reflect its origins in Jamaica and Ethiopia. Ethiopian Christianity traces its roots to the Church of Alexandria, founded by St Mark, and its 5th-century continuation in the Coptic Church of Alexandria.[3][4] Rastafari holds many Christian beliefs like the existence of a triune God, called Jah, who had sent his divine incarnate son to Earth in the form of Jesus (Yeshua) and made himself manifest as the divine person of Haile Selassie I. Rastafari accept much of the Bible, although they believe that its message and interpretation has been corrupted.[5]

The Rastafari way of life encompasses the spiritual use of cannabis[6][7] and the rejection of the degenerate society of materialism, oppression, and sensual pleasures, called Babylon.[8][9] It proclaims Zion, in reference to Ethiopia, as the original birthplace of humankind, and from the beginning of the way of life calls for repatriation to Zion, the Promised Land and Heaven on Earth. This can mean literally moving to Ethiopia but also refers to mentally and emotionally repatriating before the physical.[10][11] Some Rastafari also embrace various Afrocentric and Pan-African social and political aspirations.[6][12]

Some Rastafari do not claim any sect or denomination, and thus encourage one another to find faith and inspiration within themselves, although some do identify strongly with one of the "Mansions of Rastafari"—the 3 most prominent of these being the Nyahbinghi, the Bobo Ashanti, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.[13]

By 1997 there were, according to one estimate, around one million Rastafari worldwide.[14] In the 2001 Jamaican census, 24,020 individuals (less than 1% of the population) identified themselves as Rastafari.[15] Other sources estimated that in the 2000s they formed "about 5% of the population" of Jamaica,[16] or conjectured that "there are perhaps as many as 100,000 Rastafari in Jamaica".[17]

bigfrancis21:
Rastafarian Movement
The Rastafari movement is an Abrahamic religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974), some as Jesus in his Second Advent, or as God the Father.[1] Members of the Rastafari way of life are known as Rastas, Rastafarians or Ras. The way of life is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism", but this term is considered offensive by most Rastafarians, who, being critical of "isms" (which they see as a typical part of Babylon culture), dislike being labelled as an "ism" themselves.[2]

The name Rastafari is taken from Ras Tafari, the title (Ras) and first name (Tafari Makonnen) of Haile Selassie I before his coronation. In Amharic, Ras, literally "head", is an Ethiopian title equivalent to prince or chief, while the personal given name Täfäri (teferi) means one who is respected or feared. Jah is a Biblical name of God, from a shortened form of Jahweh or Jehovah found in Psalms 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible. Most adherents see Haile Selassie I as Jah or Jah Rastafari, an incarnation of God the Father, the Second Advent of Christ "the Anointed One", i.e. the Second Coming of Jesus Christ the King to Earth.

Many elements of Rastafari reflect its origins in Jamaica and Ethiopia. Ethiopian Christianity traces its roots to the Church of Alexandria, founded by St Mark, and its 5th-century continuation in the Coptic Church of Alexandria.[3][4] Rastafari holds many Christian beliefs like the existence of a triune God, called Jah, who had sent his divine incarnate son to Earth in the form of Jesus (Yeshua) and made himself manifest as the divine person of Haile Selassie I. Rastafari accept much of the Bible, although they believe that its message and interpretation has been corrupted.[5]

The Rastafari way of life encompasses the spiritual use of cannabis[6][7] and the rejection of the degenerate society of materialism, oppression, and sensual pleasures, called Babylon.[8][9] It proclaims Zion, in reference to Ethiopia, as the original birthplace of humankind, and from the beginning of the way of life calls for repatriation to Zion, the Promised Land and Heaven on Earth. This can mean literally moving to Ethiopia but also refers to mentally and emotionally repatriating before the physical.[10][11] Some Rastafari also embrace various Afrocentric and Pan-African social and political aspirations.[6][12]

Some Rastafari do not claim any sect or denomination, and thus encourage one another to find faith and inspiration within themselves, although some do identify strongly with one of the "Mansions of Rastafari"—the 3 most prominent of these being the Nyahbinghi, the Bobo Ashanti, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.[13]

By 1997 there were, according to one estimate, around one million Rastafari worldwide.[14] In the 2001 Jamaican census, 24,020 individuals (less than 1% of the population) identified themselves as Rastafari.[15] Other sources estimated that in the 2000s they formed "about 5% of the population" of Jamaica,[16] or conjectured that "there are perhaps as many as 100,000 Rastafari in Jamaica".[17]

@BIGFRANCIS21,This article never claimed obean and rastafarian originated from yoruba but that yoruba religion as well as christianity are part of the religion in the americans.

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