Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti

Celucien L. Joseph is Professor and Chair of the English Department at San Jacinto College, USA. Lewis A. Clorméus is an associate research scholar in the Department of African American Studiesat Yale University, USA.

• 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 Conflict1. 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 Gee3. 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 Society4. The Religious Conflict between Catholics and Evangelicals in Haitian society, Marcus Torchon5. “We Pray, We Dance, and People are Healed, but We are not like them”: Haiti’s Konvèti Consensus and its limits Lenny J. LowePart III Religion, Class, and Race in Transnational Context in the Haitian Diaspora6. 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 Noh8. Conversion and Carnival: Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in a Transnational Haitian Community, Karen Richman9. In Between Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Dynamics of Identity, Belonging, Transnational Migration and Religious Pluralism, Karen Richman and Elizabeth McAlister Index

The volume’s editors ... along with the contributors, provide a valuable collection of research papers and policy positions. They offer the hope that the Catholics, Protestants, and Vodouyizan of Haiti may pull together to bring Haitians into a better understanding of their conflicted religious history. Readers of this collection will certainly come to a better understanding themselves.