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Often misrepresented in pop culture, Haitian Vodou is a complex and deeply spiritual African-derived religion that blends ancestral traditions with Catholic influences. This video explores its origins ...

In Haiti, locals took to the streets recently to protest a new governmental decree that threatens the practice of the Vodou religion. Gina Athena Ulysse, a contributor at the Huffington Post, writes ...

Haitian Vodou is an African-derived religion shaped by slavery, resistance, and survival. It centers on reciprocal relationships with spirits called lwa, not magic or dolls. Vodou played a key role in ...

Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government on Monday condemning a massacre of "unbearable cruelty." The ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...

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Vodou Priestess Katy calls on the spirits at a traditional Haitian Vodou ceremony of the Dead. Attend her first ceremony since being displaced after the 2010 earthquake. Broadly travels to the heart ...