Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett

19. Is Voudou an American religion or an Indigenous religion?

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett

Emily Clark [+-]
Gonzaga University
Emily Suzanne Clark is associate professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University where she teaches undergraduate courses in American Religions. She is the author of A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and co-editor of Race and New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019). She has also published on New Orleans Voudou, Jesuit missions in the Pacific Northwest, and the Moorish Science Temple.

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This chapter considers how New Orleans Voudou is both an American religion and an Indigenous one. In the process, it pays particular attention to the politics of both those categories.

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Clark, Emily. 19. Is Voudou an American religion or an Indigenous religion?. Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 58-60 Sep 2022. ISBN 9781800502031. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=43134. Date accessed: 09 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.43134. Sep 2022

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