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Vodou is the common spelling for the religion among scholars, in official Haitian Creole orthography, and by the United States Library of Congress. [59] Some scholars prefer the spellings Vodoun , Voudoun , or Vodun , [ 60 ] while in French the spellings vaudou [ 61 ] or vaudoux also appear. [ 62 ]
“(Vodou) seems dark because people don’t understand it. But at some point, all religions were dark until someone said that they weren’t.” KC’s growing Vodou community emerges from ...
Coupled with the religion of the Kongo people from Central Africa, the Vodún religion of the Fon became one of the two main influences on Haitian Vodou. [131] Like the name Vodou itself, many of the terms used in this creolised Haitian religion derive from the Fon language; [132] including the names of many deities, which in Haiti are called ...
Due to this, Vodou came to light as a rebellion against the religion of the slavers, which eventually would lead to a slave revolt in 1791. [2] According to Digital Chicago History, the importance of Vodou itself began with the Haitian Revolution which was sparked by a Vodou ceremony known as the Bois Caiman Ceremony. [3]
Afterward, members are scheduled to vote to close the church, a century and a half after it was created by hardscrabble farmers in this southern Illinois community of about 14,000 people.
Some forms of folk Catholic practices are based on syncretism with non-Christian or otherwise non-Catholic beliefs or religions. Some of these folk Catholic forms have come to be identified as separate religions, as is the case with Caribbean and Brazilian syncretism between Catholicism and West African religions, which include Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé.
West African Vodún, a religion practiced by Gbe-speaking ethnic groups; African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodum, one of the major branches (nations) of Candomblé Tambor de Mina, a syncretic religion that developed in northern Brazil
[5] [6] Scholars define Hoodoo as a folk religion. Some practice Hoodoo as an autonomous religion, some practice as a syncretic religion between two or more cultural religions, in this case being African indigenous spirituality and Abrahamic religion. [7] [8] Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of the Bakongo people of Central Africa. [9]