Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage
Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article illustrates the various ethno-religious streams that have fertilized Haiti’s thriving pilgrimage traditions. With particular focus on the cults and feasts of St. James the Greater/Ogou Feray in La-Pl...
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| description | Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article illustrates the various ethno-religious streams that have fertilized Haiti’s thriving pilgrimage traditions. With particular focus on the cults and feasts of St. James the Greater/Ogou Feray in La-Plaine-du-Nord and of St. Philomena/Lasyrenn in Bord-de-Mer-de-Limonade, and with a careful consideration of Kongolese religious culture (both Catholic and traditional), a convincing case is made here that pilgrimage in Haiti owes much more to Central African traditions than is generally acknowledged by scholars of Vodou, who over-emphasize the religion’s West African roots. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-146dc13ace2b4c69a30062499d4501b02025-02-05T15:53:57ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422005-01-0191116118310.4000/jsa.2889Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimageTerry ReyToward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article illustrates the various ethno-religious streams that have fertilized Haiti’s thriving pilgrimage traditions. With particular focus on the cults and feasts of St. James the Greater/Ogou Feray in La-Plaine-du-Nord and of St. Philomena/Lasyrenn in Bord-de-Mer-de-Limonade, and with a careful consideration of Kongolese religious culture (both Catholic and traditional), a convincing case is made here that pilgrimage in Haiti owes much more to Central African traditions than is generally acknowledged by scholars of Vodou, who over-emphasize the religion’s West African roots.https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/2889religionsyncretismpilgrimagekongo |
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| title | Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage |
| title_full | Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage |
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| title_short | Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage |
| title_sort | toward an ethnohistory of haitian pilgrimage |
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