Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti
The Challenges of Living Together
Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti
The Challenges of Living Together
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781350351745
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 27/11/2025
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti’s three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism.
Scholars, researchers, and faith practitioners have often depicted relations between these traditions as antagonistic, conflicting, unproductive, and lacking in mutual understanding. With the aim of exploring the possibility of nation building in Haiti and the benefits of interreligious collaboration, contributors to this book consider topics such as the obstacles to interfaith dialogue, religious conflict, interreligious dialogue in schools, race and identity, and religious pluralism.
This book will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians, and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.
Introduction Understanding Haitian Evangelicalism, Vodou, and Catholicism in
Local and Transnational-diasporic Context, Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA) and Lewis A. Clorméus, (State University of Haiti, Haiti)
Part I: Roots of Religious Disagreement and Interreligious Conflict
1. The Reception of Protestant students in Catholic Schools in Port-au-Prince-Haiti, Lewis A. Clorméus (State University of Haiti, Haiti)
translated by Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA)
2. Visions and Obstacles to Interfaith Dialogue in a Popular Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince: The case of Poste-Marchand, Jean Müller François and Bertin M. Louis, Jr., Translated by Duke Gee
3. In Praise of Peace, Reconciliation, and Nation-Building: The Possibility and Promise of Interreligious Dialogue, Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA)
Part II Dynamics and Exchanges between the Religions in the Haitian Society
4. The Religious Conflict between Catholics and Evangelicals in Haitian society, Marcus Torchon
5. “We Pray, We Dance, and People are Healed, but We are not like them”: Haiti’s Konvèti Consensus and its limits Lenny J. Lowe
Part III Religion, Class, and Race in Transnational Context in the Haitian Diaspora
6. Symbolic Boundaries Among Evangelical Bahamians of Haitian Descent and Haitian Evangelicals in the Bahamas, Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
7. Race and Protestant Christianity in Haiti: the nineteenth century colorism and beyond, Minjung Noh
8. Conversion and Carnival: Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in a Transnational Haitian Community, Karen Richman
9. In Between Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Dynamics of Identity, Belonging, Transnational Migration and Religious Pluralism, Karen Richman and Elizabeth McAlister
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