Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti
The Challenges of Living Together
Celucien L Joseph editor Lewis A Clorméus editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:27th Nov '25
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An exploration of the interreligious dialogue between Haiti’s two dominant religious traditions: Vodou and Christianity.
Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti’s three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism.
Scholars, researchers, and faith practitioners have often depicted relations between these traditions as antagonistic, conflicting, unproductive, and lacking in mutual understanding. With the aim of exploring the possibility of nation building in Haiti and the benefits of interreligious collaboration, contributors to this book consider topics such as the obstacles to interfaith dialogue, religious conflict, interreligious dialogue in schools, race and identity, and religious pluralism.
This book will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians, and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.
The volume’s editors ... along with the contributors, provide a valuable collection of research papers and policy positions. They offer the hope that the Catholics, Protestants, and Vodouyizan of Haiti may pull together to bring Haitians into a better understanding of their conflicted religious history. Readers of this collection will certainly come to a better understanding themselves. * Nova Religio *
Combining the insightful voices of seasoned Haiti experts and exciting emergent scholars, this timely and compelling volume is a must read for anyone interested in religious pluralism in general and contemporary Caribbean religion in particular. Highly recommended! * Terry Rey, Professor or Religion, Temple University, USA *
This landmark interdisciplinary volume illuminates religious plurality, transformation, conflict, and interconnection across Haiti and in the Haitian diaspora. The collection’s wide-ranging contributions spotlight the complexity of Haiti’s religious landscape transhistorically and transnationally, with particular attention to the roots of division and the dynamics of coexistence. This book advances scholarship across multiple fields as well as the project of interfaith dialogue in and beyond Haiti. * Kate Ramsey, Associate Professor Department of History, University of Miami, USA *
ISBN: 9781350351745
Dimensions: 232mm x 152mm x 18mm
Weight: 420g
288 pages