Voodoo and Power
The Politics of Religion in New Orleans 1881-1940
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Narrated by:
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Thomas Stone
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Written by:
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Kodi A. Roberts
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The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their American-born descendants. Instead, a much more complicated patchwork of influences created New Orleans Voodoo, allowing it to move across boundaries of race, class, and gender. By employing late 19th and early 20th-century first-hand accounts of Voodoo practitioners and their rituals, Roberts provides a nuanced understanding of who practiced Voodoo and why.
Voodoo in New Orleans, a mélange of religion, entrepreneurship, and business networks, stretched across the color line in intriguing ways.
Voodoo rituals and institutions also drew inspiration from the surrounding milieu, including the privations of the Great Depression, the city s complex racial history, and the free-market economy. Money, employment, and business became central concerns for the religion s practitioners: to validate their work, some began operating from recently organized Spiritual Churches, entities that were tax exempt and thus legitimate in the eyes of the state of Louisiana. Practitioners even leveraged local figures like the mythohistoric Marie Laveau for spiritual purposes and entrepreneurial gain. All the while, they contributed to the cultural legacy that fueled New Orleans s tourist industry and drew visitors and their money to the Crescent City.
The book is published by Louisiana State University Press.
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- 2019-09-19
Is this a university thesis?
Looking to get some info on the history of voodoo and thought this might be the answer. I truly attempted to listen to it in its entirety but
Failed. Although a thorough insight into voodoo and race and gender with historical references. That’s about all this book seems to be. It focuses mostly on voodoo and its crossing of socio-economic groups. If you are looking for anything that talks about the root of voodoo and more practical implications of it this is not the book for you. A lot of work went into the research for this book but it honestly reads (or sounds in the care of audible) as a university thesis.
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