Haitian voodoo "is a populist religion from which the freedom-fighting ex-slave heroes of the past drew inspiration in that nationalist struggle prior to independence in 1804"
though, like all populism, it can sour into authoritarianism:
"Under the regimes of the notorious Dr Duvalier ('Papa Doc') and his son, voodoo was elevated virtually to the status of a state religion" (96)
> from I. M. Lewis' Ecstatic Religion (2002)
> tagged with #resistance, #revolution, #ecstasy, #spirituality
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