Voodoo syncretism
 

Lewis 94: "the loa 'mysteries,' which are also called 'saints' or even 'angels,' although largely of West African derivation, are viewed as part of the Christian cosmology"
 
"Throughout Lent, the voodoo sanctuaries are closed and no service is celerbated. In Holy Week the cult accessories are covered with sheets"
 
"it is scarcely surprising that the two relgious calendars should be closely synchronized" due to the "degree of syncretism"
 
"the Haitian peasantry who evidently experience no embarrassment or confusion in combining the two faiths [...] claim that 'to serve the loa you have to be a Catholic.'"

> from I. M. Lewis' Ecstatic Religion (2002)

> tagged with #magic, #syncretism, #ecstasy, #christianity,

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