Vodou: A faith maligned : vimarsana.com

Christian colonizers discredited ‘voodoo’ as a deviant sect filled with pin-pricked dolls, zombies and curses. But these colonial caricatures bear scant resemblance to the Haitian Vodou practised today, as Trisha Elliott reports in this article for ucobserver.org. [Our thanks to Peter Jordens for preparing this post for us.] The Vodou temple in north Montreal is…

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