Spiritual Mapping Evangelicals Battle Vodou in Haiti
Reza Aslan is the host of the new spiritual adventure series Believer, which tackles the…
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The Environmental Politics of Vodou, New Orleans Style
The “Anba Dlo” water symposium held last weekend in New Orleans featured an unexpected alliance:…
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
Read MoreThe Theo-logic Behind Pat Robertson’s Offense
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.
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“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.
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Rum and Gunpowder: How to Take Out a Vodou Doll
A scholar of the religion known as Vodou (or Voodoo, if you’re Anglo) tells how she saved a small cloth ritual object from desecration by a gang of spooked professors.
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