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The book also looks at how LGBT movements in other nations have responded to the recognition of same-sex marriages

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas James Randi or already involved inThis volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic based celebrations calls into question the long held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or