Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo: Sin, Fraud, Entertainment, and Religion
Throughout the nineteenth century, Voodoo was considered by the dominant American culture to be sinful and threatening, and strong repressive measures were taken by the authorities. From the turn of the twentieth century until about the 1960s, the practice was simply seen as a fraud from which ignor...
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University of Californiarnia Press
2002
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Nova religio
Year: 2002, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 86-101 |
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