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Winti (Surinamese Afro-syncretic)
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Surinamese Afro-syncretic religion combining West African traditions with European elements.
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Low Control
BITE breakdown
Behavior Control3/10
Information Control2/10
Thought Control2/10
Emotional Control3/10
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0 — Surinamese Afro-syncretic religion; mainstream low-control.
Profile facts
Founded
Colonial era
Members
Tens of thousands
Active in
LatAm, Europe
In context
Winti is the Surinamese Maroon Afro-syncretic tradition. Mainstream voluntary tradition with substantial Surinamese-Dutch diaspora following.
Recovery resources
- ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) — General referral and cult-aware therapist directory.
- INFORM (Information Network on Religious Movements) — LSE-founded UK research-based information service covering new religious movements.
- Freedom of Mind Resource Center — Steven Hassan's organisation; BITE-model resources and family-side exit guidance.
See the full curated list at /resources.
Evidence by BITE axis
Information Control
- mainstream low-control
Timeline
- Colonial eraWinti tradition emerges
Evidence matrix
Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.
Sources
- Various academic studies search ↗
- Visible Minority and Population Group by Generation Status: Canada — https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810032001 open ↗
- Other Revolution — https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/haitian/pages/part7.html open ↗
- The Haitian Revolution — https://www.jstor.org/stable/2652438 open ↗
- The Haitian Revolution — The American Historical Review (2000) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2652438 open ↗
- Tropic Death' Presents Life's Horrors In Beautiful Prose — https://www.npr.org/2013/01/16/169169040/tropic-death-presents-lifes-horrors-in-beautiful-prose open ↗
- Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 (2004) — https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9780203316115 open ↗
- Divergent genetic strata in five Bahamian islands — Forensic Science International: Genetics (2012) — https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.fsigen.2011.02.005 open ↗
- 2015NatCo...6.6596M — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015NatCo...6.6596M open ↗
- Unravelling the hidden ancestry of American admixed populations — Nature Communications (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fncomms7596 open ↗
- 2018NatSR...811422F — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018NatSR...811422F open ↗
- Exploring Cuba’s population structure and demographic history using genome-wide data — Scientific Reports (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41598-018-29851-3 open ↗
- An anthropological genetic perspective on creolization in the anglophone caribbean — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.22261 open ↗
- 2013AJPA..151..135T — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013AJPA..151..135T open ↗
- An anthropological genetic perspective on creolization in the anglophone caribbean — American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013) — https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fajpa.22261 open ↗
- 2016NatCo...712522M — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016NatCo...712522M open ↗
- A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome — Nature Communications (2016) — https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fncomms12522 open ↗
- The genetic structure of populations from Haiti and Jamaica reflect divergent demographic histories — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.21194 open ↗
- 2010AJPA..142...49S — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AJPA..142...49S open ↗
- The genetic structure of populations from Haiti and Jamaica reflect divergent demographic histories — American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2009) — https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fajpa.21194 open ↗
- Molecular and Sociodemographic Colorectal Cancer Disparities in Latinos Living in Puerto Rico — Genes (2023) — https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fgenes14040894 open ↗
- Creole | History, Culture & Language — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Creole open ↗
- Afro-Caribbean. — https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/afro-caribbean open ↗
- CIA — The World Factbook — https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html open ↗
We cite sources by name and outlet rather than fabricating links. Where a source includes its own URL, the open ↗ link opens it directly; otherwise search ↗ runs a Google Scholar query for the cited title — useful for verifying academic sources. For news outlets, search the outlet's own archive.
Change history
Substantive edits logged per the score-updates policy.
- 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J: per-group recovery resources applied via programmatic palette (closest-fit by category + subCategory + score). Palette: Mainstream-comparator lighter.
- 2026-05-20Source-density flags derived from existing free-text sources[]: academic sources. Heuristic auto-flag; subsequent editorial pass will populate structuredSources[] with reliability tiers.
- 2026-05-20Score band scheme migrated from 4 bands to 5 (Minimal 0–5 / Low 6–12 / Moderate 13–20 / High 21–30 / Extreme 31–40). No CLCI value changed; the new Minimal band was carved out of the bottom of the previous Low band.
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