Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue
Ebook
Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue addresses both historical factors and ideological issues that created antagonism and conflict between Christians and Vodouists in Haiti. The book offers practical solutions and strategies to help create a harmonious and peaceful environment between religious practitioners associated with Vodou and Christianity. Toward this goal, this volume considers various perspectives and theories, such as autobiography, anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork, religious experience, and gender to examine the subject matter. This volume offers practical examples and resources on how to engage in interreligious dialogue and promote interreligious education in Haiti.
There are three philosophical and practical ideas underlying this book project: (1) it is grounded on the belief that religion has value, and it could bring social goods to different communities and enhance human dignity and justice; (2) it is premised on the idea that dialogue and cooperation are necessary for nation-building and human development (as democratic ideals) and that one of the leading functions of the world's religious traditions is to promote both cooperation and dialogue through mutual understanding and for the common good; and (3) that the power and public role of religion in society can be used as a major force of unification and peace-building among divergent factions and schools of thought, and to promote reconciliation, mutual respect, and friendship in the world.
“Joseph, Désir, and Clorméus’s co-edited volume offers major contributions to interreligious dialogue in Haiti. The collection assembles valuable contemporary scholarship on the fraught historical relationship between practitioners of Christianity and Vodou, the epistemological and ideological developments necessary for meaningful interreligious dialogue, and important ideas for implementing reconciliation and ensuring constructive coexistence. These essential Haitian case studies critique imperial religious misthinking while laying conceptual and practical foundations for dialogue, healing, and mutual respect.”
—Benjamin Hebblethwaite, associate professor in Haitian Creole and French studies, University of Florida
“Within the context of a long history of religious tensions in Haiti and repeated persecutions of Vodou, this book offers prime opportunity to reflect on Haiti’s multi-religious traditions. Contributing authors address important interreligious dialogues that can inspire and promote self-growth, education, and development and alleviate the social ills that plague various sectors of Haitian society. Ultimately, such work may help uplift Haitian religious citizens at this historical juncture.”
—Claudine Michel, editor, Journal of Haitian Studies
- Title: Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue
- Authors: Celucien L. Joseph, Charlene Desir, Lewis A. Clormeus, Philippe Martin
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666742435, 9781666742428, 1666742422, 9781666742411, 1666742414, 1666742430
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666742435
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-05T22:03:22Z
Celucien L. Joseph is professor and chair of the department of English at San Jacinto College. His most recent book is Theological Education and Christian Scholarship for Human Flourishing: Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Multiculturalism (Pickwick, 2022).
Charlene Désir is professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education. Her most recent publications include a 2015 co-edited text entitled Comparative International Perspectives on Education and Social Change in Developing Countries and Indigenous People in Developed Countries.
Lewis A. Clorméus is a professor of sociology of religion at State University of Haiti. His most recent book is Le vodou, le prêtre et l’ethnologue : Retour sur la polémique Joseph Foisset / Jacques Roumain (Haïti, 1942) (HÉMISPHÈRES ÉDITIONS, 2021).