Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue
Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue addresses both historical factors and ideological issues that created antagonism and conflict between Christians and Vodouists in Haiti. The book offers practical solutions and strategies to help create a harmonious and peaceful environment between religious practitioners associated with Vodou and Christianity. Toward this goal, this volume considers various perspectives and theories, such as autobiography, anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork, religious experience, and gender to examine the subject matter. This volume offers practical examples and resources on how to engage in interreligious dialogue and promote interreligious education in H...
Theologizing in Black
Theologizing in Black is a creative and rigorous comparative study on black theological musings and liberative intellectual contemplations engaging the theological ethics and anthropology of both continental African theologians (Tanzania, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and black theologians in the African Diaspora (Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, United States). Using the pluralist approach to religion promoted by the philosopher of religion and theologian John Hick, the book is also an attempt to bridge an important gap in the comparative study of religion, Africana Studies, and Liberation theology, both in Africa and its diaspora. The book provides an analytical fr...
Can We Zoom into God?
When Zoom worship emerged in Britain during the COVID lockdown of 2020, Christians quickly turned to an art form, a form of theater, to deliver their worship. It was a quest for immanence, the very thing the Reformation dealt with by the elevation of transcendence. What an intriguing thought: Could John Calvin with his dictum regarding piety have practiced Zoom worship? Served as he was with the principle that the finite cannot contain the infinite, we must admit it looks very unlikely! At least in this Calvin saw eye-to-eye with Erasmus, but what of Luther? He may have been a comfortable Zoom worshiper, with his views that “Religious artworks are neither here nor there” and “We may ha...
Maroon Nation
A new history of post†‘Revolutionary Haiti, and the society that emerged in the aftermath of the world’s most successful slave revolution Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country’s early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent Haiti focused on crop production, land reform, and the unauthorized rural settlements devised by former slaves of the colonial plantation system. Analyzing the country’s turbulent transition from the most profitable and exploitative slave colony of the eighteenth century to a relatively free society of small farmers, Gonzalez narrates the origins of institutions such as informal open-air marketplaces and rural agrarian compounds known as lakou. Drawing on seldom studied primary sources to contribute to a growing body of early Haitian scholarship, he argues that Haiti’s legacy of runaway communities and land conflict was as formative as the Haitian Revolution in developing the country’s characteristic agrarian, mercantile, and religious institutions.
Tierra de zombis
Haití fue el primer país americano en obtener su independencia y el primero que abolió la esclavitud. Tiene una historia fascinante (y sangrienta), además de un interesante patrimonio cultural y natural. Sin embargo, nada de esto suele llamar la atención de los medios de comunicación. Salvo cuando algún desastre natural asola su territorio o se produce algún suceso político trágico. O cuando sale a relucir el tema del vudú y, cómo no, el de los zombis. Sin embargo, frente a la imagen de brujería, de prácticas de magia negra vinculadas a gentes analfabetas, ¿alguien se imagina que el máximo dirigente espiritual vudú pueda ser un licenciado por el City College de Nueva York y ...
Reclaiming Haiti's Futures
Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called jenerasyon 86, were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957–1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the jenn doktè, returned after the 2010 earthquake to par...
Tante
There is in Haitian vodou mythology a belief in an aquatic world populated by mermaids and other lwa. In addition, Haitians claim to have been abducted by these spirits who dragged them underwater so that they could live alongside them. These stays last from several hours to several years. At the end of these experiences, the concerned return to the mainland and tell their loved ones their aquatic experience some of them are never the same since, there are some who return with (mystical) gifts that he had never had before.
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of Haitian Vodou that would examine its connections to traditional Yoruba religion and thus illuminate certain aspects of its mythology, belief system, practices, and rituals. This book seeks to bridge these gaps. Vodou in the Haitian Experience studies comparatively the connections and relationships betwe...
État, religions et politique en Haïti (XVIIIe-XXIe s.)
La 4e de couverture indique : "Mis à part le terrible séisme de 2010, Haïti est pour la plupart d'entre nous associé au vodou, à la grande pauvreté, à l'incapacité à accéder durablement à la démocratie. Un retour à l'histoire est plus que jamais indispensable pour tenter de dépasser ces stéréotypes et comprendre sa société et sa culture. Tel est l'objectif de ce dossier qui croise les approches de l'histoire, de la sociologie, de l'anthropologie et des sciences politiques afin d'analyser les rapports des religions à l'État et à la politique. Il s'efforce d'inscrire cette lecture dans la durée, depuis l'accession à l'indépendance acquise dans la lutte, contre l'esclava...
