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Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
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2016
Summary
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of Haitian Vodou that would examine its connections to traditional Yoruba religion and thus illuminate certain aspects of its mythology, belief system, practices, and rituals. This book seeks to bridge these gaps.
Vodou in the Haitian Experience studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Such studies might enhance our understanding of the religion, and the connections between Africa and its Diaspora through shared religious patterns and practices. The general reader should be mindful of the transnational and transcultural perspectives of Vodou, as well as the cultural, socio-economic, and political context which gave birth to different visions and ideas of Vodou.
The chapters in this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art, anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0831-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0832-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
276
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Roots / Routes / Rasin No access
2 Circling the Cosmogram No access
3 Speaking the Past No access
4 Decoding Dress No access
5 The African Origin of Haitian Vodou No access
6 The Vodun Has Killed Them No access
7 The Vibratory Art of Haiti No access
8 Ethnographic Interpretations of Traditional African Religious Practices and Haitian Vodou Ceremonial Rites in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse and Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen No access
9 Oversouls and Egregores in Vodou No access
10 Arabian Religion, Islam, and Haitian Vodou No access
