Vodún, Spirited Forests, and the African Atlantic Forest Complex

Vodún has been described as indefinable, endlessly flexible, and borderless. In this paper, I develop an analytical framework for understanding global Vodún, thereby challenging claims that Vodún is, at its core, inexplicable. To accomplish this, I combine over a decade of ethnographic research in B...

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Main Author: Landry, Timothy R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2020]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-201
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Haiti / Benin / Voodooism / Forest (Motif) / Internationality
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
BB Indigenous religions
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBR Latin America
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Vodún
B West Africa
B Religion
B Symbolic anthropology
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