Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robertson
A voodoo scholar on how believers may view the quake, why he thinks Pat Robertson's remarks were "cruel, ignorant, unforgivable"—and more.
Voodoo is a religion, a complex spiritual worldview, the distillation of profound religious ideas that came over from Africa during the slavery era and through time became manifest in any number of traditions in the New World.
It is ... a fusion of a number of religious traditions, of which Catholicism is one influence. Haitian culture and religion was inspired by virtually all of Africa from Senegal to Mozambique.
Voodoo is based on a dynamic relationship between the living and the spirit realm.
The living give birth to the dead; the dead become the spirits; the spirits are the multiple expressions of the divine.
A human being has both a physical body and a soul or spirit, and at death the two dissociate. The
