Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti’s three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism.
Scholars, researchers, and faith practitioners have often depicted relations between these traditions as antagonistic, conflicting, unproductive, and lacking in mutual understanding. With the aim of exploring the possibility of nation building in Haiti and the benefits of interreligious collaboration, contributors to this book consider topics such as the obstacles to interfaith dialogue, religious conflict, interreligious dialogue in schools, race and identity, and religious pluralism.
This book will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians, and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.
Edited by:
Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College USA),
Lewis A. Clorméus (Yale University,
USA.)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350351707
ISBN 10: 1350351709
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 May 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Understanding Haitian Evangelicalism, Vodou, and Catholicism in Local and Transnational-diasporic Context, Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA) and Lewis A. Clorméus, (State University of Haiti, Haiti) Part I: Roots of Religious Disagreement and Interreligious Conflict 1. The Reception of Protestant students in Catholic Schools in Port-au-Prince-Haiti, Lewis A. Clorméus (State University of Haiti, Haiti) translated by Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA) 2. Visions and Obstacles to Interfaith Dialogue in a Popular Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince: The case of Poste-Marchand, Jean Müller François and Bertin M. Louis, Jr., Translated by Duke Gee 3. In Praise of Peace, Reconciliation, and Nation-Building: The Possibility and Promise of Interreligious Dialogue, Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA) Part II Dynamics and Exchanges between the Religions in the Haitian Society 4. The Religious Conflict between Catholics and Evangelicals in Haitian society, Marcus Torchon 5. “We Pray, We Dance, and People are Healed, but We are not like them”: Haiti’s Konvèti Consensus and its limits Lenny J. Lowe Part III Religion, Class, and Race in Transnational Context in the Haitian Diaspora 6. Symbolic Boundaries Among Evangelical Bahamians of Haitian Descent and Haitian Evangelicals in the Bahamas, Bertin M. Louis, Jr. 7. Race and Protestant Christianity in Haiti: the nineteenth century colorism and beyond, Minjung Noh 8. Conversion and Carnival: Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in a Transnational Haitian Community, Karen Richman 9. In Between Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Dynamics of Identity, Belonging, Transnational Migration and Religious Pluralism, Karen Richman and Elizabeth McAlister Index
Celucien L. Joseph is Professor and Chair of the English Department at San Jacinto College, USA. Lewis A. Clorméus is an associate research scholar in the Department of African American Studies at Yale University, USA.
Reviews for Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti: The Challenges of Living Together
"""Combining the insightful voices of seasoned Haiti experts and exciting emergent scholars, this timely and compelling volume is a must read for anyone interested in religious pluralism in general and contemporary Caribbean religion in particular. Highly recommended!"" * Terry Rey, Professor or Religion, Temple University, USA * ""This landmark interdisciplinary volume illuminates religious plurality, transformation, conflict, and interconnection across Haiti and in the Haitian diaspora. The collection’s wide-ranging contributions spotlight the complexity of Haiti’s religious landscape transhistorically and transnationally, with particular attention to the roots of division and the dynamics of coexistence. This book advances scholarship across multiple fields as well as the project of interfaith dialogue in and beyond Haiti."" * Kate Ramsey, Associate Professor Department of History, University of Miami, USA *"
