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Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems-ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being-alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodún, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodún and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems—ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being—alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
The pioneering essays collected in this volume bring critical new
perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national,
and religious identities. The authors demonstrate that one cannot
study these categories of identity formation in isolation, but must
instead examine the ways each intersects with-and ultimately helps
construct-the others. This innovative theoretical perspective sheds
new light on the role of religion in shaping the lives of diverse
communities throughout the Americas and forces us to reevaluate the
reductive opposition between secular and religious identities. The
twelve essays in the volume explore the ties between race, nation,
and religion in ethnographic and historical detail. Topics range
from Jesuit mission work to Hollywood film, manifest destiny to
liberation theology, the Haitian Rara festival to American
immigration law. In these and other contexts, the authors explore
the intertwined histories of a hemisphere defined at the charged
intersections of race, nation, and religion.
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The Time's Discipline (Paperback)
Philip Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister; Foreword by Daniel Berrigan
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"This is a startling, stunning, and fascinating book about the
blend of music, religion, and politics in Haitian culture.
McAlister's mastery of many different ways of knowing makes this
study an endless source of insight, intrigue, and inspiration.
"Rara! succeeds magnificently as an exploration into Rara rituals
and Haitian music, but it also presents original and generative
insights into every aspect of Haiti's past, present, and
future."--George Lipsitz, author of "Dangerous Crossroads
"This is a major contribution to the literature on Vodou, Haiti,
popular culture, Caribbean culture and music, transnational
immigrant practices, and the corpus of black religions in the
Americas. It is an extremely well-written, well researched and
argued, and highly readable book."--Lawrence H. Mamiya, co-author
of "The Black Church in the African American Experience
"This is a smart and thoughtful book by a very talented
ethnographer. Anyone interested in Haiti will appreciate the work
of Elizabeth McAlister."--Karen Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A
Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
"A rare in-depth look at an extremely popular, yet often
misunderstood phenomenon. With this book and CD, Elizabeth
McAlister, an involved observer, makes an incalculable contribution
to our musical and cultural literature."--Edwidge Danticat, author
of "The Farming of Bones: A Novel
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