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SPIRIT SERVICE: VODUN AND VODOU IN AFRCN ATLANTIC WORLD

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<P>Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as Vodún, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and globalization. This book explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and its place in the modern world. By examining the systems—ritual practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means of securing opportunity and well-being—alongside the individuals who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale. Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers, economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed perspective on this historically disparaged religion, the book reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and demanding recognition and respect.</P>

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Other Frontmatter.
Introduction.
1: Encounter.
2: Vodou Genesis: Africans and the Making of a National Religion in Saint-Domingue.
3: Universalism and Syncretism in Beninese Vod&#x00FA;n.
4: Crossing Currents: Gorovodu and Yewevodu in Contemporary Togo.
5: A Prayer for a Muslim Spirit: Islam in Gorovodu.
6: Where Have All the Ounsi Gone?.
7: Sailing between Local and Global: Vodou in the Modern and Contemporary Arts of Haiti.
8: Engagement.
9: Taking Hold of a Faith.
10: The Physic(s)ality of Vod&#x00FA;n and the (Mis)behavior of Matter.
11: Vodou Skins: Making Bodily Surfaces Social in Haitian Vodou Infant Care.
12: Spirited Forests and the West African Forest Complex.
13: Vodou, an Inclusive Epistemology: Toward a Queer Ecotheology of Liberation.
14: Necroscape and Diaspora: Making Ancestors in Haitian Vodou.
Conclusion: Global Vod&#x00FA;n and Vodou&#x2014;Encounter and Engagement.
Contributor Biographies.
Index.

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