American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World

Published: November, 1998  Pages: 360  Features: 40 b&w photos. Gloss. Bib. Index.

Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)—a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade—is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc. more... about American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World