Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of…
By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.
"In this unique synthesis of African-Haitian spirituality, Western religion, Eastern mysticism, and modern science, Dr. Crosley presents Vodou as a metaphysical experience--a bridge to parallel universes and mystical dimensions, confirmed by the eerie tenets of quantum physics."…
"In this unique synthesis of African-Haitian spirituality, Western religion, Eastern mysticism, and modern science, Dr. Crosley presents Vodou as a metaphysical experience--a bridge to parallel universes and mystical dimensions, confirmed by the eerie tenets of quantum physics."…
Introduction / Christian Vannier and Timothy R. Landry -- Vodou Genesis: Africans and the Making of a National Religion in Saint-Domingue / Terry Rey -- Universalism and Syncretism in Beninese Vodún / Douglas J. Falen -- Crossing Currents: Gorovodu and Yewevodu in Contemporary T…
Voodoo is a religion of charms and rituals intended to empower life and bring good fortune to those who practice it. This book separates fact from fiction, tracing voodoo's roots back to its African origins and its full development in the West Indies.
