“Self-care and community care for Black bodies; music that expressed African-derived thought in work and prayer; dance, socially or on stage, with African rhythms and movements: through all these, Black spiritual and religious life sought the African God. Sometimes, these were not clearly defined African Diaspora Religions. But the limiting definition of ‘religion,’ as something clearly defined with a structure that aligns with Western thinking, does not meet the challenge of the authors that I cited in the Introduction to this book: ‘The word “religion” itself has lost its usefulness and that a new vocabulary needs to be developed for naming the various attitudes and activities that the word “religion” is sometimes used to describe.' ”