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	Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou \| Intro \| American Museum of Natural History
		The sacred arts of Vodou are the outstanding achievement of a great people and their incomparable gift to the world.
		However, Vodou is more than a religion—it is a way of life which has inspired Haitian artists in many different media.
		The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou exhibition, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History from October 1998 until January 1999, explored the arts and culture of the Afro-Caribbean religion of Vodou.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/vodou (414 words)

	Vodou Medicine
		Vodou is the popular religion of the people of Haiti, brought to the West during the islands French colonial period (1697-1804) by slaves arriving from Africa.
		In Vodou culture however, the physician is also the priest, for the condition of the spirit is considered to be as important as (and in fact determines) the physical state of the body.
		In Vodou culture, individualism is notably suppressed in favour of a collective “personhood” wherein the individual is given identity, solidity, energy, and protection in a turbulent world by means of a thick weave of relationships which include other human beings as well as the lwa, clan ancestors, and other spirits.
	www.vodouspirit.com /vodou_medicine.htm (3964 words)

	Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Vodou
		Vodou is an animistic Caribbean spiritual tradition, most usually associated with Haiti, which traces its lineage to the shamans of ancient Africa.
		The shaman-priest of Vodou is known as the Houngan and the priestess as the Mambo.
		Fet Gede - the Vodou Festival of the Ancestors
	www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /term.php?id=2884 (250 words)

	The Cultural Setting: Morality in Haitian Vodou
		This is why the Vodou is concerned with the betterment of human existence and the improvement of conditions on earth through the interaction with the spiritual world and the purposeful veneration of the lwa and ancestors.
		As a tradition, Vodou allows no room for skepticism, which is regarded as the consequence of an ambivalent [or incomplete] attempt to establish rationally the design in the cycle of successive events, to debate the relationships between their parts, and to question the divine hand in their purpose.
		Further, skepticism, according to Vodou, is the outcome of an improper or otherwise faulty apprehension over what should admittedly be self-evident: the world harbors powerful entities (lwa) that are forever active in human lives, and that such entities are the cause of all occurrences in the mechanical operation of the world (Desmangles, 1992).
	www.africawithin.com /religion/cultural_setting.htm (2156 words)

	Vodou FAQ
		The Vodou religion is an amalgamation of several African traditions that arrived in the hearts and minds of the slaves beginning around the year 1522, continuing up to the revolution in 1791, and continuing to evolve in almost complete isolation until 1860.
		Vodou does not postulate a doctrine of transmigration of souls as in the Hindu religion, nor the karma-based reincarnation put forth by the modern New Age Movement.
		In Vodou, a moral person is defined as someone who does what they can, at the appropriate time, to the degree with which they are able, and in accordance to their position in the community within which they live and work.
	www.vodouspirit.com /VodouFAQ.htm (2290 words)

	Kathie Klarreich, New recognition of Vodou's role in Haitian culture
		Vodou, which has no written scriptural text, is an amalgam of the mixed African, native, and Anglo-Saxon cultures of colonial Haiti.
		For practitioners, or Vodouisans, Vodou rituals are part of a philosophy that ties individuals to society, their community, and the environment.
		Vodou is so entwined in Haiti's culture that it is practically impossible to separate the two, say supporters.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/352.html (737 words)

	Studio Wah - Art Tours
		Hence, Vodou is a religion that, through a complex system of myths and rituals, relates the life of the devotee to hundreds of incommensurable spirits called lwas (from a Yoruba word for spirit), who govern all of life as well as the entire cosmos.
		The theology of Vodou was born on the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was called during the French colonial period (1697-1804).
		Likewise Ezili, the Dahomean and Vodou water spirit who is the symbol of love, was identified with to the Virgin Mary, not only because of her beauty but because of the colors blue and pink as well as many other symbols with which both Ezili and Mary are associated.
	www.studiowah.com /arttours/culture/religion/aboutvodou.html (1901 words)

	Interview: Finding My Religion: Don't Be Spooked By My Vodou
		Vodou, to Glassman and the members of her temple, La Source Ancienne Ounfo, is a faith that helps people escape self-imposed boundaries and envision a world of infinite possibility.
		Vodou is all about healing on many levels, whether it's an individual who is suffering emotionally, physically or spiritually or a community that needs help.
		Vodou helps individuals and communities balance and combine different forces and archetypes, and in the process of doing that they create their own self-being.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/interviews/int_20060719.shtml (2118 words)

	Vodou - TLP (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Followers of Vodou, called voduisants, are guided by mambos (female priests) and houngans (male priests) who are trained in the minutiae of the religion.
		Primarily, Vodou arose in Saint-Domingue and elsewhere in the West Indies as Caribbean island-owning nations with a voracious need for cheap labor to power their plantation economics began importing increasing numbers of slaves mainly from Africa.
		As trampled as it was, Vodou survived the harsh conditions on Saint-Domingue.
	thelouvertureproject.org /index.php?title=Voodoo (1136 words)

	vodou
		Vodou today must therefore be understood as a people's religion, although probably the people of the lower classes; as a political tool when convenient; and as an exotic form of bait for tourists.
		Vodou is both dance and spirit; the movements of the spirits are dances, and dances in turn bring the spirits to life through their possession of human beings.
		Vodou is a religion about family and community, a family and community for people who have throughout their history been forced to leave their homes and create new communities.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~rbarris/vodoufornw.html (3870 words)

	Vodou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vodou is a transliteration from the Fon language.
		Vodou as it is known in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora is the result of the pressures of many different cultures and ethnicities of people being uprooted from Africa and imported to Hispaniola during the African slave trade.
		There are clergy in Haitian Vodou whose responsibility it is to preserve the rituals and songs and maintain the relationship between the spirits and the community as a whole (though some of this is the responsibility of the whole community as well).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vodou (2956 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - An Introduction to Vodou - a Traditional African Religion - A1019666
		The word Vodou appears to derive from the Fon word for 'spirit', describing the concept of a world alive with spirit and energy, and anthropologists estimate the religion to be 6-10,000 years old.
		Vodou has remained an integral part of Haiti's troubled history and culture; it was in danger of being stamped out after the fall of the repressive Duvalier regime, but was rescued and is flourishing once more.
		Vodou is well-known for its animal sacrifice (somewhat unfairly, as this is only part of the Vodou tradition), though it is not unusual for Vodou groups in America and Europe to have abandoned animal sacrifice altogether.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1019666 (2928 words)

	vodou
		Vodou was born on the slave plantations of eighteenth-century Haiti.
		This works in Haitian Vodou because the moral point in serving the spirits, like the aesthetic point in drumming, is not to strive toward an ideal form exterior to the context, but to ritualize, clarify, and balance the social forces already present within it.
		In Vodou, each person is said to have one spirit who is the m@t tet, "master of the head." To some extent the personality of'this spirit mirrors that of the individual.
	www.dhushara.com /book/renewal/voices2/vodou.htm (3809 words)

	Vodou
		Vodou studies have a long tradition of orthographic and terminological disputes centering on the fact that, until recently, Haitian Creole was an oral language (it still has no comprehensive, definitive dictionary covering the Vodou lexicon) with varying pronunciations and transcription histories.
		One reason may be that in Vodou, the altar is not the primary meetingplace for gods and devotees; in a ounfò, altars occupy space separate from the central peristil, where the lwa descend the poto mitan and enter human bodies.
		Vodou belief divides human being into the kò kadav (physical body), the gwo bon anj (ego-soul, a double of the physical body), and the ti bon anj (spiritual soul with superego functions, connected to the lwa).
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v3i12/vodou.htm (9704 words)

	Haiti Briefing Number 28 May 1998
		Vodou inspired the slave revolution that created the modern state of Haiti, has been and continues to be the religion of the majority of Haitians, and serves as the inspiration for huge numbers of Haitian artists and musicians.
		Vodou is rooted in the countryside and the mountains and has been around for hundreds of years.
		Vodou is a religion with priests, a society of the faithful, temples, altars, ceremonies, and finally a whole oral tradition by means of which the essential elements of worship have been transmitted.
	haitisupport.gn.apc.org /28b.html (2301 words)

	What is Vodou?
		Vodou is a spiritual tradition which originated in Haiti during the period of French colonial slavery.
		A Vodou ceremony is public, and anyone may enter the peristyle, or temple, and observe.
		Vodou supported the impetus for the resistance to French colonial slavery, and fueled the only succesful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere, which led to the birth of the hemisphere's first independant fl republic.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Voodoo/what_is_vodou.htm (1665 words)

	What is Vodou? Haitian Vodou, New Orleans Voodoo
		Vodou is seen in daily life and every detail of life has meaning in Vodou.
		VODOU history belongs to the millions of people, whose ancestors were brought from Africa to the Caribbean in bondage.
		The Vodou was tested as late as the 1970s when evangelical Protestant missionaries flocked to Haiti.
	www.neworleansmistic.com /spells/primer/whatisvodou.htm (1511 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Slave Kingdoms - Wonders
		Vodou is the only traditional African religion to survive in the New World.
		Vodou is a comprehensive system of knowledge that has nothing to do with simplistic and erroneous images such as sticking pins into dolls, putting a hex on an adversary, or turning innocents into zombies.
		Vodou is essentially a monotheistic religion, which recognizes a single and supreme spiritual entity or God, known as Mawu-Lisa among the Fon, Olorun among the Yoruba, and Bondye or Gran Met in Haiti.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi3/3_wondr3.htm (282 words)

	More About Haitian Vodou \| More About Haitian Vodou - Erzulies.com
		Vodou believes that Bondje is a remote and largely impersonal force, too remote to concern Him/Her/It-self with the daily problems of mankind.
		In Vodou, a moral person is defined as someone who "does what they can, at the appropriate time, to the degree with which they are able, and in accordance to their position in the community within which they live and work" (period).
		Certainly, Vodou remains the fulcrum of life on both the island, and in the Diaspora, the underlying rhythm of discourse, but it is also undergoing a forced evolution of sorts from both within and without, especially regarding its politic.
	www.erzulies.com /site/articles/view/6 (3240 words)

	Island of Salvation - About Sallie Ann Glassman
		She is one of a handful of Americans ordained into Vodou in the traditional Haitian initiation.
		Often maligned and misunderstood, Vodou is actually a healing and life-affirming religion.
		She believes that to discover Vodou is to embark on an encounter with divine mystery.
	www.feyvodou.com /services/about_sallie.htm (391 words)

	Raw Vision
		In both Vodou and this art, diverse elements, often culled from the streets, are combined to create powerful, totemic and startling objects.
		Vodou arrived in Catholic New Orleans with the slave trade early in the 19th century.
		He constructs shrines, combining Vodou and Catholic iconography, on skateboards, the pill shape of which he associates with drug addiction; and on boats, a reference to Agwe, the womb, and to his seaside childhood.
	www.rawvision.com /back/vodou/vodou.html (1523 words)

	Voodoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, because the Vodou deities are born to each African clan-group, and its clergy is central to maintaining the moral, social, and political order and ancestral foundation of its villagers, it proved to be impossible to eradicate the religion.
		Voodoo is used to describe the Afro-creole tradition of New Orleans, Vodou is used to describe the Haitian Vodou Tradition, while Vudon and Vodun and Vodoun are used to describe the deities honoured in the Brazilian Jeje (Ewe) nation of Candomble as well as West African Vodoun, and in the African diaspora.
		Public relations-wise, Vodou has come to be associated in the popular mind with such phenomena as "zombies" and "voodoo dolls." While there is evidence of zombie creation, it is a minor phenomenon within rural Haitian culture and not a part of the Vodou religion as such.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voodoo (2232 words)

	eBay Guides - Sacred Arts of Vodou
		Vodou is the indigenous religion of the Island of Haiti.
		Genuine Vodou is a family practice, where a family honors the ancestors of their lineage by observing special dates and anniversaries, celebrating the lives of the Ancestors with song and dance, and asking for indulgences through prayer, offerings of water and food.
		As such, an "authentic" Vodou piece is most often created by an authentic houngan or mambo, consecretee to a particular spirit and created for a specific purpose.
	reviews.ebay.com /Sacred-Arts-of-Vodou_W0QQugidZ10000000001215508 (941 words)

	Vodou \| Encyclopedia of Religion
		Vodou is also a central part of everyday life in Haitian diaspora communities in New Orleans and Santiago, Cuba, both products of the upheaval caused by the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804).
		The word vodou is derived from the Fon vodun, which means "god"; or "spirit."; Hoodoo is a related term from the same Fon word, yet, in the United States, it is almost always used as a derogatory term that focuses on fl magic spells and charms.
		While certain Vodou prayers, songs, and invocations preserve fragments of West African languages, Haitian Creole is the primary language of Vodou.
	www.bookrags.com /research/vodou-eorl-14 (453 words)

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