Why Did Strains Of African Religion Develop In Latin America and Not the USA?

I'm interested in the idea of how Protestant denominations can be considered to have saints. Maybe revered leaders who simply have another title?
 
I'm interested in the idea of how Protestant denominations can be considered to have saints. Maybe revered leaders who simply have another title?

The Protestant view is generally that all believers are saints. It's common, for example, for the Apostles and Paul to be referred to as "Saint" in Protestant theology. The practice of invoking the name of a saint to intercede before God is not common though, as the emphasis is put on praying to God himself.
 
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The Protestant view is generally that all believers are saints. It's common, for example, for the Apostles and Paul to be referred to as "Saint" in Protestant theology. The practice of invoking the name of a saint to intercede before God is not common though, as the emphasis is put on praying to God himself.

Yeah, mostly this. Intercessions and praying to saints/angels/Mary and whatnot is seen as idol worship.
 
I heard that the style of many Southern Baptist churches takes influence from African forms of worship, which is probably the only case of slaves influencing the culture of their masters.
 
Strains of West African religions did develop in America. Hoodoo was and is practiced in parts of the South and there's Louisiana Voodoo. Both of them are descended from West African Vodun.

Sorry to correct, but Hoodoo comes from Congolese religion, way to the south of the Yoruba culture. The word Hoodoo comes from the Portuguese for "Jewish" because all pre-New Testament practices were regarded as Jewish. Angolan slaves brought the word to the New World. Hudi and Vodun converged their pronunciations into Voodoo and Hoodoo.

The Congolese had already been Christianised before slavery, though a strange cult of St Anthony (from memory) was developed by a Congolese king that saw St Anthony as "the black equivalent of Jesus" and though it didn't last, the syncretising of Catholicism and native belief actually started in Africa for the Congolese. Throughout areas where both traditions occurred, the two are separated even if it doesn't seem that way to outsiders, so in Brazil you have Candomble forms for both, plus Umbanda (an African-Spiritualist sect formed about a century ago but highly Yoruba) and Quimbanda (a Congo-style modern form of Umbanda). In nCuba you have Lucume (Yoruba) Santeria (Yoruba-syncretist) and Palo Mayombe (Congo). Jamaican equivalents are Obeah and Kumina, Congo and Yoruba respectively I think.

The following is a suggestive song set in a "Balm Yard", where Obeah is practised for healing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJHwB9543PY
 
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