ABSTRACT: This article offers a concise and panoramic vision of the religion of the people in Latin America, showing its great potentialities and challenges.

Perhaps the most important achievement of the Conference of African Writers of English Expression held in Makerere College, Kampala, in June1962 is that African literature as now defined and understood leads nowhere. 

The historian must have no country.
– John Quincy Adams¹

In this paper I wish to draw upon several ideas of "passages" in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to compare masculine and female creation in terms of conventions, ideals and practices.