Celucien L. Joseph is assistant professor of English at Indian River State College.Nixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

• Introduction: Contemporary and Transnational Vodou, and the African Perspective Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon CleophatPart I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black Diaspora1.Roots / Routes / Rasin: Rural Vodou and the Sacred Tree as Metaphor for the Multiplicity of Styles in Folkloric Dance and Mizik RasinAnn E. Mazzocca 2.Circling the Cosmogram: Vodou Aesthetics, Feminism, and Queer Art in theSecond-Generation Haitian DyasporaKantara Souffrant3.Dancing Difference and Disruption: Vodou Liturgy and Little Haiti on the Hill in “Seven Guitars”Barbara Lewis4.Decoding Dress: Vodou, Cloth and Colonial Resistance in Pre- and Postrevolutionary HaitiCharlotte Hammond Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions 5.The African Origin of Haitian Vodou: From the Nile Valley to the Haitian ValleysPatrick Delices 6.New World/Old World Vodun , Creolité, and the Alter-Renaissance Bronwyn Mills7.The vibratory art of Haiti: a Yoruba heritagePatricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien

Editors and contributors must be commended in making the text, concepts and ideas easily accessible to non-French and Kreyol speakers.... Vodou in the Haitian Experience is an excellent book and a welcomed contribution toward a more clear and nuanced understanding of Haitian Vodou. It proves that the religion deserves far greater scholarly attention, and has something to say to readers of diverse interests, perspectives and fields of study seeking to understand the phenomenon.

Celucien L. Joseph is assistant professor of English at Indian River State College.Nixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

• Introduction: Contemporary and Transnational Vodou, and the African Perspective Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon CleophatPart I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black Diaspora1.Roots / Routes / Rasin: Rural Vodou and the Sacred Tree as Metaphor for the Multiplicity of Styles in Folkloric Dance and Mizik RasinAnn E. Mazzocca 2.Circling the Cosmogram: Vodou Aesthetics, Feminism, and Queer Art in theSecond-Generation Haitian DyasporaKantara Souffrant3.Dancing Difference and Disruption: Vodou Liturgy and Little Haiti on the Hill in “Seven Guitars”Barbara Lewis4.Decoding Dress: Vodou, Cloth and Colonial Resistance in Pre- and Postrevolutionary HaitiCharlotte Hammond Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions 5.The African Origin of Haitian Vodou: From the Nile Valley to the Haitian ValleysPatrick Delices 6.New World/Old World Vodun , Creolité, and the Alter-Renaissance Bronwyn Mills7.The vibratory art of Haiti: a Yoruba heritagePatricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien

Editors and contributors must be commended in making the text, concepts and ideas easily accessible to non-French and Kreyol speakers.... Vodou in the Haitian Experience is an excellent book and a welcomed contribution toward a more clear and nuanced understanding of Haitian Vodou. It proves that the religion deserves far greater scholarly attention, and has something to say to readers of diverse interests, perspectives and fields of study seeking to understand the phenomenon.

Celucien L. Joseph is assistant professor of English at Indian River State College.Nixon S. Cleophat is assistant professor of religion at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

• Introduction: Contemporary and Transnational Vodou, and the African Perspective Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon CleophatPart I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black Diaspora1.Roots / Routes / Rasin: Rural Vodou and the Sacred Tree as Metaphor for the Multiplicity of Styles in Folkloric Dance and Mizik RasinAnn E. Mazzocca 2.Circling the Cosmogram: Vodou Aesthetics, Feminism, and Queer Art in theSecond-Generation Haitian DyasporaKantara Souffrant3.Dancing Difference and Disruption: Vodou Liturgy and Little Haiti on the Hill in “Seven Guitars”Barbara Lewis4.Decoding Dress: Vodou, Cloth and Colonial Resistance in Pre- and Postrevolutionary HaitiCharlotte Hammond Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions 5.The African Origin of Haitian Vodou: From the Nile Valley to the Haitian ValleysPatrick Delices 6.New World/Old World Vodun , Creolité, and the Alter-Renaissance Bronwyn Mills7.The vibratory art of Haiti: a Yoruba heritagePatricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien

Editors and contributors must be commended in making the text, concepts and ideas easily accessible to non-French and Kreyol speakers.... Vodou in the Haitian Experience is an excellent book and a welcomed contribution toward a more clear and nuanced understanding of Haitian Vodou. It proves that the religion deserves far greater scholarly attention, and has something to say to readers of diverse interests, perspectives and fields of study seeking to understand the phenomenon.