Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti's three major pract

"Explores the antagonistic history of Haiti's two dominant religious traditions - Christianity and Vodou - an antipathy which has had a marked impact on nation-

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

The Republic of Haiti is a fascinating country of contrast where are joined together tradition and illiteracy, high religion and folk religion, light and darkne

This book traces the development of Haiti's combined Vodou-Christian religion from 1500 to the present and explains how this combination of distinct faiths coal