A Religious System of Belief, and its Socioeconomic in Haiti

Robert B. Cross (New York: Arco, 1969), 7.

primarily African heritage. It combines monotheistic and celestial elements with elements of animalspirit worship and a belief in the numinousness or sacredness of many specific things and places. It has no elaborate formal theology, not doubt in crowing part because it has traditionally been the religion of Haiti's masses, never of the educated elite group who alone had the time, leisure, and inclination to work out such a theology. Evolving as it did on an island under the colonial rule of Catholic France, it contains elements borrowed from Catholicism, including both "stylistic" characteristics  ceremonies with intonations, incenseburning, and other attributes of the Catholic battalion  and "spiritual" characteristics, notably a veneration of the Virgin. It functions both on an individual level, providing the enchant believer with a means of connection with and invocation of the spiritual world, and on a social level, bind people together locally through group rituals which often involve dance, and more broadly through the tradition of expedition to Voodoo shrines, notably that of Saut D'Eau.3

Voodoo per se is a distinctively Haitian religion.

But  and this is a point to which we shall return at a lower place  it is characteristic of a whole range of "nativist" knuckle downdeveloped religions which are be in many part of the New World where African

Laguerre, Michel S. Voodoo and Politics in Haiti. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.

The actual origins of Voodoo are uncertain, but it probably

5Katherine Dunham, Island Possessed (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), 8.

Schanche, Don A. "Violence, Political Feuds obscure Haiti Election Outlook." Los Angeles Times (July 22, 1990), A1, c. 1.

slaves were brought and settled in large numbers. It thusly represents one face of the moral and spiritual response of Africans who found themselves in chains in a strange land, and ________

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