Vodou in Haitian Life And Culture
Invisible Powers
Michel, Claudine (EDT)
Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
An introduction to Vodou practices and beliefs, with a focus on Haiti.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This book introduces readers to the practice of Vodou and helps deconstruct and destroy stereotypes which have survived for hundreds of years. The authors in the collection--from Karen McCarthy Brown to Gerdes Fleurant to Leslie Desmangles--are leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of Vodou Studies. Tackling a wide range of Vodou practices and images, the essays within work to introduce readers to the history and practice of this religion, and to correct the fiction of Vodou which has been circulating as fact. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, the country in which it has its strongest following, examining the influence it has on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art. By looking in detail at the beliefs and practices in one country, the reader will begin to understand this unique religion and the multiple domains in which it operates.
BOOK REVIEWS
"The collection makes a valuable contribution to the field, and it should draw much interest among scholars and students of Caribbean religions."--Eugenio Matibag, Iowa State University"Les invisibles are the powers that have sustained Haitians through centuries of exploitation, impoverishment and terror. This collection of essays by leading scholars has the great merit of showing how Vodou works as a healing force that thoroughly penetrates Haitian culture and social life. From ritual temple to street festival, from song and dance to art and literature, from democracy to social justice, from Haiti to New Orleans, each essay addresses a different aspect of Vodou's living presence. Assembled together in this volume, they constitute a vital whole that provides broad access to a living religion and way of life that has all too often been maligned and misunderstood."--Patrick Taylor, Chair of the Division of Humanities, York University, and editor of Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean"The essays of this exceptional volume throw clear, cool water on a parched terrain. Many readers will emerge from Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture with a fresh vision of the world's oldest--and most maligned--spirituality. The book's contributors, both budding and accomplished scholars from multiple disciplines, honor the Haitian people who bravely nurture Vodou and weave it through every strand of their lives. Ayibobo to Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith!"--Lois Wilcken, Ph.D., author of The Drums of Vodou
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403971617
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403971616
Dewey Decimal: 299.6/75097294
Library of Congress: 2006043152
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 242
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