vodoun

Examples

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• Except when he went with me, he did not attend Vodoun services.

  Academic text (1990)

• Then someone got up and began to dance appropriate Vodoun steps.

  Academic text (1990)

• Eventually, there were requests for me to play some of the Vodoun recordings I had made, which I did.

  Academic text (1990)

• Whatever he told me about Vodoun, I never found a houngan who would dispute it.

  Academic text (1990)

• With his classical base, he drew heavily on the songs and instrumental music of the Vodoun cult services.

  Academic text (1990)

• At one point, he was discussing the origin of the cross symbol, used alike in connection with the Vodoun deity Gede Nimbo and with Christian belief.

  Academic text (1990)

• Dominicans regarded Haitians as the harbingers of new cash-based productive relations and Vodoun as the source of their limitless economic success.

  Academic text (2003)

• Consequently, attitudes toward Vodoun often serve to marginalize expatriate Haitians throughout the Caribbean, whether the migrant laborers in the early 20th century or more recent transnational communities.

  Academic text (2003)

• In that book, Seabrook tells of a "mamaloi" (mambo, or Vodoun priestess), Maman Celie, who lived far away from the city in "a habitation lost in the high mountains."

  Academic text (1990)

• Many people in Haiti actively participate in Vodoun ceremonies that honor their ancestors.

Synonyms

V

voodoo

vsvodoun

39 7.9

A religion from West Africa practiced in Haiti and the Caribbean with rituals and belief in spirits

places more emphasis on ancestor worship than on general spirit rituals

V

voodooism

vsvodoun

9.9

A religion from the Caribbean, especially Haiti, that mixes West African beliefs, Catholic ideas, spirits, and magic

emphasizes ancestor worship and spirit beliefs rather than Catholic blending

Surface Forms

Etymology