Abstract

ZUNIGA CARRASCO, Iván Renato. Voodoo: a comprehensive view of the Haitian spirituality. memorias [online]. 2015, n.26, pp.152-176. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.26.7207.

The Haitian Voodoo is not only a religion recreated by African slaves in the French colony called Hispanola comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is on the contrary a humanistic religion, a set of cultural traditions that are the foundation that unites the people of Haiti in times of crisis and saves him from despair. Voodoo seeks the invulnerability of the believer by circumstances of this with the superior divinity. Thus the believer tends to identify with the deity or deified objects to be invulnerable as the same divinity. It is a religious practice that is not closed to the emergence of new luas (gods). Man is one with nature is one with the gods is one with its surroundings, voodoo. Voodoo cults are syncretic since colonial times, mixed with christians.

Keywords : Voodoo; houngan; mambo; luá; sacrifice; religion; Haiti.

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