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CandombléAn ethnographic introduction to Candomblé — the Afro-Brazilian religion that emerged from the crucible of Atlantic slavery, survived three centuries of persecution through the fierce custodianship of Black women, and preserved one of the richest spiritual cosmologies in the Americas.Diné Religion — The Way of HózhóAn ethnographic introduction to the religion of the Diné (Navajo) people — the theology of hózhó as beauty, harmony, and sacred order; the emergence through the underworlds; the Holy People and Changing Woman; the Four Sacred Mountains that define the homeland; and the elaborate chantway tradition through which hataalii singers restore the world to balance.Lucumí — La Regla de OchaAn ethnographic introduction to Lucumí — La Regla de Ocha — the Cuban expression of Yoruba orixá religion that survived the Middle Passage, slavery, colonial suppression, and Marxist atheism to become one of the most dynamic religious movements of the twentieth-century Americas.The Raëlian Movement — The Way of the InfiniteAn ethnographic introduction to the Raëlian Movement — the UFO religion founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon (Raël, b. 1946) after a claimed encounter with extraterrestrial beings called the Elohim, who revealed that all life on Earth was scientifically created by their civilization — producing a global community of approximately 100,000 members across 100+ countries, organized around the project of building an embassy to welcome the Elohim's return, and distinguished by an unusually permissive sexual ethic, the Clonaid human cloning controversy, and a theology that replaces God with advanced extraterrestrial science.