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Vodun in Coastal Benin: Unfinished, Open-Ended, Global

Vodun in Coastal Benin: Unfinished, Open-Ended, Global

Rush, Dana

Paperback

Series: Critical Investigations of the African Diaspora

African HistoryReligion General

ISBN10: 0826519083
ISBN13: 9780826519085
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Published: Sep 19 2017
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
Centered on the former slaving port of Ouidah, Benin, Dana Rush's research extends through Togo to Ghana, a region where exchanges of histories, ideas, and belief systems are given material forms. This is a land where Shango, Jesus, and the Buddha are all gods of Vodun; where Hindu and Vodun deities co-exist in symbiosis; where the spirits of people enslaved 150 years ago are paid tribute by the children of their long-lost masters; and where Haitian, Brazilian, and Cuban images, artists, and spirits remain relevant to contemporary West African practices.

The book is richly illustrated with color photographs of Vodun shrines, temple wall paintings, masquerades, and Hindu chromolithographs.

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