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Voodoo: An African American Religion
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272 pages, Hardcover
Published March 20, 2024
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February 4, 2025
A very interesting read. While it lacks a lot of details, which the author himself attests to the lack of scholarly and historical information available, it still provides a great amount of detail and analysis.
I especially commend the author for the use of comparative tables to help illustrate his points about the similarities, and dissimilarities, between the Haitian Voudu and the Lower Mississippi Valley religion. With his central point to draw that the two religions were similar, yet distinct religions, I believe that his work accomplished this thoroughly well.
I also appreciate the author’s analyses of historical works, presenting the information as it is available, while also acknowledging where these sources should be doubted with reasonable criticism.
Certainly not a fully comprehensive detailing of the religion, a very great overview and description nonetheless. I also enjoyed, having recently read other Southern Louisiana cultural and historical works, how often the Lower Mississippi Voodoo religion has parallels and mirrors to other cultural traditions and practices of contemporary Louisiana cultures. In essence, this book, I believe, provides a great resource for drawing these parallels with the limited-documented African Créole cultures of historical Louisiana.
I especially commend the author for the use of comparative tables to help illustrate his points about the similarities, and dissimilarities, between the Haitian Voudu and the Lower Mississippi Valley religion. With his central point to draw that the two religions were similar, yet distinct religions, I believe that his work accomplished this thoroughly well.
I also appreciate the author’s analyses of historical works, presenting the information as it is available, while also acknowledging where these sources should be doubted with reasonable criticism.
Certainly not a fully comprehensive detailing of the religion, a very great overview and description nonetheless. I also enjoyed, having recently read other Southern Louisiana cultural and historical works, how often the Lower Mississippi Voodoo religion has parallels and mirrors to other cultural traditions and practices of contemporary Louisiana cultures. In essence, this book, I believe, provides a great resource for drawing these parallels with the limited-documented African Créole cultures of historical Louisiana.
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