The Healing Power of African American Spirituality

By Stephanie Rose Bird

This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions.

Inside you will find: a celebration of healing, magic, and the divination traditions of ancient African earth-based spirituality; an explanation of how these practices have evolved in contemporary African American culture; and a potpourri of recipes, rituals, and resources that you can use to heal your life.

Among the topics covered:

• African spiritual practices of Santeria, Obeah, Lucumi, Orisa, and Quimbois
• Hoodoo - and how to use it to improve your health
• Ancient healing rituals and magical recipes of Daliluw
• Talking drums, spiritual dancing, clapping, tapping, singing, and changing