Christian Imperialism in Haiti? Missionaries, Theo-tourism, and the Invasion of the Global South
The disaster in Haiti has brought attention to the ways that aid and ignorance sometimes come as a package.
Missionary Imposition: Idaho Baptists Charged With Kidnapping 33 Haitian Children
Had the inexperienced Idaho missionaries read so much as Haiti’s Wikipedia page they would have learned that the nation has a history of slavery, colonialism, and missions that warns against attempts to remove Haitian children from their home.
The Today Show takes a friendly look at Scientology's efforts in Haiti.
Representatives of Scientology have had trouble with prosyletizing in the past.
The Myth of “Voodoo”: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti
Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture.
Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions
Preachers and public figures have often used natural disaster as an occasion to opine about God’s justice, or lack thereof. Or to make the definitive case against a divine order. But Haiti deserves to be addressed on its own terms, and in relation to the needs of those still suffering.
‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance
As people around the world begin to reckon with the scope of the catastrophe in Haiti, we offer a set of responses to what was—for those whose work focuses on American religion—a shameful expression of prejudice and ignorance from a once-prominent evangelical leader.
And while we're setting the record straight, let's remember Robertson isn't a Baptist minister anymore. Yep, he ain't a reverend.
Cult of personality or empire?
Once again, Pat Robertson has embarrassed the larger Christian community with his comments on Haiti, but the idea of God as a judge is deeply rooted in American religion.
“Biblical” Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti
Note to Pat Robertson: Haiti is not a nation of Vodou practitioners. It is, and continues to be, overwhelmingly Christian.
Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance
Televangelist says Haitians are cursed because of a deal with the devil.