Africans—for some 450 years regularly kidnapped by “Christians” and brought to the New World to serve as slaves—were also able to change religion “with a minimum of friction.”
... Thus, The Encyclopedia of Religion notes: “Voodoo . . . , a syncretistic religion pieced together from West African religions, sorcery, Christian religion, and folklore . . . , has become the real religion of many of the people of Haiti, including those who are nominally Catholic.”