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Haitian Vodou
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Mambo Chita Tann
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-08 - Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

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Haitian Vodou is a fascinating spiritual tradition rich with ceremonies and magic, songs and prayers, dances and fellowship. Yet outside of Haiti, next to no on
The Spirits and the Law
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Kate Ramsey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to th
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-30 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyz
Mama Lola
Language: en
Pages: 429
Authors: Karen McCarthy Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. "Mama Lola" shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in e
The Faces of the Gods
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Leslie G. Desmangles
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Lesl