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Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, And Reality | 
 enlarge | Creators: Patrick Bellegarde-smith, Claudine Michel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 892654
Media: Paperback
Pages: 161
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0253218535
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.675097294
EAN: 9780253218537
ASIN: 0253218535
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
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"Haitian Vodou" breaks away from European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to form new approaches with an African ethos. The contributors to this volume, all Haitians, examine the potentially radical and transformative possibilities of the religious and philosophical ideologies of Vodou and locate its foundations more clearly within an African heritage. Essays examine Vodou's roles in organizing rural resistance; forming political values for the transformation of Haiti; teaching social norms, values, and standards; influencing Haitian culture through art and music; merging science with philosophy, both theoretically and in the healing arts; and forming the Haitian "manbo," or priest.
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Most Comprehensive multi-vocal work of contemporary Vodou scholarship February 18, 2007
Wendell W. Barnes (Boston, MA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gathering together some of the most keen work in the emerging field of Vodou studies, Bellegarde-Smith and Michel edit a masterful work in which one, without experiencing the culture directly are capable of enculterating their mind to the point of indirect experience. Dis-mantling unwarranted and out-dated taboos and meta-narratives about the subject, this work is intelectually riveting and takes into account modern religious scholarship in order to dispel the stigma ans otherness of Haitian Vodou.
I highly recommend this text.
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