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<p>Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)—a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade—is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc.</p> <p>Since its violent introduction in the Caribbean islands, it has been the least understood and most feared religion of the New World—suppressed, outlawed or ridiculed from Haiti to Hattiesburg. Yet with the exception of Zora Neale Hurston's accounts more than a half-century ago and a smattering of lurid, often racist paperbacks, studies of this potent West African theology have focused almost exclusively on Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean basin. <i>American</i> <i>Voudou</i> turns our gaze back to American shores, principally towards the South, the most important and enduring stronghold of the voudou faith in America and site of its historic yet rarely recounted war with Christianity.</p> <p>This chronicle of Davis's determined search for the true legacy of voudou in America reveals a spirit-world from New Orleans to Miami which will shatter long-held stereot

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Author

Davis, Rod

Publisher

University of North Texas Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585275017

Category

religious

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Religion

Rating

3.74 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13