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Vodou

Vodou. I. History. Voodoo. Vodun: Spiritual force (Fon). 1730-1790: The emergence of Vodou. 1790-1800: Revolutionary period. Vodou, too, experienced growth and cohesion.

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Vodou

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  1. Vodou

  2. I. History

  3. Voodoo Vodun: Spiritual force (Fon)

  4. 1730-1790: The emergence of Vodou. • 1790-1800: Revolutionary period. Vodou, too, experienced growth and cohesion. • 1800-1815: Vodou suppressed by three of Haiti's most famous rulers, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe. • 1815-1850: Quiet diffusion. • 1860-1945: Various periods of Roman Catholic suppression, culminating in an all out war against Vodou in the 1940s. • 1945 - present: Co-optation of Vodou by the Duvalier movement and growth of Fundamentalist Protestant challenge to Vodou. • 1975 - present: Public re-emergence of Vodou.

  5. II. Stereotypes

  6. Vodou regognized as a religion in Haiti Port-au-Prince, April 5, 2003 “Vodou is henceforth to be fully recognized as a religion, empowered to fulfill its mission throughout the country consistent with the constitution and the laws of the Republic, pending the adoption of a law relating to its legal status.”

  7. III. Structure

  8. BASIC CONCEPTS One God: Bondye (Bon Dieu) Spiritual beings: a. Lwa (Loa) “Les Mysteres” These are the spirits of major forces of the universe b. The dead These are the souls of one’s own family members

  9. Loa / Lwa

  10. Manbo:Female Priestess Houngan:Male Priest

  11. Transformative Action Acts which, when performed properly by humans, mobilize supernatural forces in order to affecthuman life.

  12. Healing • Central and key aspect of vodou is healing people from illness • Manbo and Houngan work with herbs, rituals, and the help of the lwa

  13. Coercion: the forcible imposition of new beliefs, habits or images; Resistance: the appearance of adopting new beliefs, habits or images but turning them to new uses or giving them new meanings; Acculturation: the willing absorption of new materials, deemed worthless by others, but again, transforming them with new meanings and using them in new contexts. Accumulation: the "ritualization" of re-use, transformation, and appropriation, for the purpose of reclaiming and re-establishing a lost community.

  14. FIN

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