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Afro-Creole Spiritualists and Southern Catholicism

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To the Afro-Creole Spiritualists of New Orleans, spirits were important, raced bodies were not.

CHR Comments: The article describes the liberal views and practices that prevailed in southern, French Catholicism, which is the religion in which these Spiritualists grew up.

Source: New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists | Religion Dispatches

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