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By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as the Black Caribs, from the Central American coast of the Caribbean. It is estimated that one-third of the Garifuna have migrated to New York City over the past fifty years. Paul Christopher Johnson compares Garifuna spirit possession rituals performed in Honduran villages with those conducted in New York, and what emerges is a compelling picture of how the Garifuna engage ancestral spirits across multiple diasporic horizons. His study sheds new light on the ways diasporic religions around the world creatively plot itineraries of spatial memory that at once recover and remold their histories.

Garifuna (Caribbean people) --- Black Carib Indians --- Black Caribs --- Carifuna (Caribbean people) --- Garif (Caribbean people) --- Garifunas --- Garinagu (Caribbean people) --- Kariphuna (Caribbean people) --- Blacks --- Ethnology --- Island Carib Indians --- Racially mixed people --- Ethnic identity. --- Religion. --- Migrations. --- Mixed descent --- Black people --- afro caribbean people. --- all powerful. --- ancestral spirits. --- arawak. --- arawakan. --- black caribs. --- bungiu. --- buyei. --- caribbean. --- central america. --- diaspora. --- dugu ceremony. --- ethnic identity. --- ethnography. --- garifuna people. --- garifuna religion. --- god. --- history. --- honduran villages. --- indigenous people. --- island carib. --- memory. --- migration. --- new york city. --- pasts. --- racial identity. --- religion. --- religious identity. --- ritual performances. --- saint vincent. --- shaman. --- spatial memory. --- spirit possession rituals. --- spiritual practices. --- spirituality. --- sunti gabafu. --- traditional practices.