VODOU COSMOLOGY AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS OF KAND AND HEGEL.
Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press, 2018. First edition. Paperback. 100p., bibl., wrps. New. Item #189601
ISBN: 9789766406905
In this work, Vivaldi Jean-Marie begins with an interpretation of the rise of Vodou practices in Saint-Domingue which is sensitive to the social, spiritual and cultural challenges of the slaves communities in Saint-Domingue, later Haiti. He shows effectively that Vodou cosmology emerged as a spiritual, social and cultural technology for the enslaved to overcome the dissonance and brutality of slavery in Saint-Domingue. Vodou Cosmology thus assumes the tripartite role of spiritual, social and cultural compass for slaves who, concurrently with the development of Vodou, managed to establish a common ethos.
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