Vodou in the Haitian Experience (eBook)

A Black Atlantic Perspective

Nixon S. Cleophat, Celucien L. Joseph (Herausgeber)

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2016
304 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0832-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. 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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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.

Autor

Celucien L. Joseph is assistant professor of English at Indian River State College.Asselin Charles is professor English at Kwara State University, Ilorin, Nigeria.Nixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Schallum Pierre is research associate at the Chaire d’enseignement et de recherche La philosophie dans le monde actuel de l’Université Laval, Laval University/ Université Laval.

Inhalt

Introduction: Contemporary and Transnational Vodou, and the African Perspective Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon CleophatPart I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black DiasporaRoots / Routes / Rasin: Rural Vodou and the Sacred Tree as Metaphor for the Multiplicity of Styles in Folkloric Dance and Mizik RasinAnn E. Mazzocca Circling the Cosmogram: Vodou Aesthetics, Feminism, and Queer Art in theSecond-Generation Haitian DyasporaKantara SouffrantDancing Difference and Disruption: Vodou Liturgy and Little Haiti on the Hill in “Seven Guitars”Barbara LewisDecoding Dress: Vodou, Cloth and Colonial Resistance in Pre- and Postrevolutionary HaitiCharlotte Hammond Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions The African Origin of Haitian Vodou: From the Nile Valley to the Haitian ValleysPatrick Delices New World/Old World Vodun , Creolité, and the Alter-Renaissance Bronwyn MillsThe vibratory art of Haiti: a Yoruba heritagePatricia Marie-Emmanuelle DonatienEthnographic Interpretations of Traditional African Religious Practices and Haitian Vodou Ceremonial Rites in Zora Neale Hurston’s (1938) Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Maya Deren’s (1983) Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of HaitiTammie JenkinsOversouls and Egregores in Haitian VodouPatricia Scheu (Mambo Vye Zo Komande LaMenfo) Arabian Religion, Islam and Haitian Vodou:The “Recent African Single-Origin Hypothesis” and the Comparison of World Religions Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Michel Weber

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2016
• Co-Autor: Mambo Vye Zo Komande LaMenfo (Patricia D. Scheu) DaGinen, Kantara Souffrant, Michel Weber, Patrick Delices, Patricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien, Charlotte Hammond, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Tammie Jenkins, Barbara Lewis, Ann E. Mazzocca, Bronwyn Mills
• Zusatzinfo: 11 Illustrations including: - 2 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 8 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African traditional religion • Haitian Religion • Vodou • Vodou and Christianity • Vodou and Culture • Vodou and Haiti • Vodou and Law • Vodou and Politics • Vodouphobia
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0832-4 / 1498508324
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0832-2 / 9781498508322