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Informationen zum Autor Celucien L. Joseph currently serves as professor and chair of the English Department at San Jacinto College and visiting professor of theology at Emmaus University in Haiti. His most recent books include Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020), and Theological Education and Christian Scholarship for Human Flourishing: Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Multiculturalism (2022). Nixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Vodou in Haitian Memory examines the idea and representation of the Haitian Vodou in Haitin history, art, painting, aesthetics, and culture. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis. Zusammenfassung Vodou in Haitian Memory examines the idea and representation of the Haitian Vodou in Haitin history! art! painting! aesthetics! and culture. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer! feminist theory! critical race theory! Marxism! postcolonial criticism! postmodernism! and psychoanalysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Towards New Visions and New Approaches to the Vodou Religion Celucien L. Joseph, Asselin Charles, Schallum Pierre, and Nixon Cleophat Part I: Vodou, Modernity, Resistance, and Haitian Cultural Identity and Nationalism Chapter One: James Theodore Holly, Fabre Geffrard, and the Construction of a "Civilized' Haiti" Brandon R. Byrd Chapter Two: Oath To Our Ancestors: The Flag of Haiti is Rooted in Vodou Patrick Delices Part II. Vodou, Vodouphobia, and Haitian Male Intellectuals and Cultural Critics Chapter Three: The Role of Vodou in the Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-Mars Celucien L. Joseph Chapter Four: Jacques Stephen Alexis, Haitian Vodou and Medicine: Between Cure and Care Shallum Pierre Part III. Vodou, Christian Theology, and Collective Redemption Chapter Five: Haitian Vodou: The Ethics of Social Sin & the Praxis of Liberation Nixon S. Cleophat Chapter Six: Vodouphobia and Afrophobic Discourse in Haitian Thought: An Analysis of Dantès Bellegarde's Religious ...
