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Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants beliefs and practices.Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European religious traditions onto African stock, but as a true creole phenomenon, born out of the oppressive conditions of slavery and the necessary adaptation of slaves to a New World environment.Desmangles uses Haitian history to explain this phenomenon, paying particular attention to the role of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maroon communities in preserving African traditions and the attempts by the Catholic, educated elite to suppress African-based superstitions. The result is a society in which one religion, Catholicism, is visible and official; the other, Vodou, is unofficial and largely secretive.

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title The Faces of the Gods Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti - photo 1
title:The Faces of the Gods : Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti
author:Desmangles, Leslie Grald.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807843938
print isbn13:9780807843932
ebook isbn13:9780807861011
language:English
subjectVoodooism--Haiti, Catholic Church--Haiti, Haiti--Religion.
publication date:1992
lcc:BL2530.H3D48 1992eb
ddc:299/.67
subject:Voodooism--Haiti, Catholic Church--Haiti, Haiti--Religion.
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The Faces of the Gods
Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti
Leslie G. Desmangles
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS CHAPEL HILL LONDON Page - photo 2
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
CHAPEL HILL & LONDON
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1992 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Desmangles, Leslie Grald.
The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman
Catholicism in Haiti / Leslie G. Desmangles.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2059-8 (hard : alk. paper).
ISBN 0-8078-4393-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. VoodooismHaiti. 2. Catholic ChurchHaiti.
3. HaitiReligion. I. Title.
BL2530.H3D48 1992
299'.67dc20 92-53625
CIP
Page v
In loving memory of my mother,
Irne "Miche" Hippolyte-Desmangles
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Contents
Preface...
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Cultural Setting:
Religious Paradox or Symbiosis
1
2
Historical Setting:
The Shaping of Two Religions in Symbiosis
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Religion in the Colony: 1492-1790
17
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Religion and the Revolts for Independence: 1790-1804
28
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Religion and the Shaping of the Republic: 1804-1860
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Religion in Haitian Life: 1860-Present
47
3
The Faces of Myth:
Symbiosis and the Changing Self
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Participation: The Communal Self
64
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Rites of Passage: The Transfigured Self
68
4
The Faces of the Cosmic Gods
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Picture 9
The Nanchons: Classifications of the Lwas
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Vodou Cosmology
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The Cosmic Lwas
108
5
The Faces of the Gods and Public Life
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The Lwas of Public Life
131
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Conclusion
170
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Vodou and Catholicism
174
Glossary
183
Notes
191
Bibliography
199
Index
211

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Illustrations
Vodou altar showing lithographs of saints, as well as bottles and jars said to contain ancestral gwo-bon-anjs
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Saint Peter or Legba
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