Term for the West African Vodun and the closely related religions of the African Diaspora.
1Haitian Vodou became a religion with rebellion and freedom at its heart.
2Most recently, Disney's Princess and the Frog misrepresented certain aspects of Vodou.
3Here, Vodou defies cliches of zombies, pins in dolls and black magic.
4Vodou is still something many Haitians, including the diaspora, keep underground.
5Throughout history, Christians have often identified Vodou as the root of all Haiti's problems.
6No push to spread Vodou ever wiped out entire "savage" indigenous peoples.
7Vodou has caused no wars due to a desire to convert as many people as possible.
8Ricardo is cautiously optimistic: one day, Vodou may be a catalyst for a more inclusive Haiti.
9As a composer, he creates dramatic, multilayered tunes which twist and turn rhythmically, inspired by Haitian Vodou drumming.
10Vodou is not a bad thing.
11Vodou, a New World religion that married elements of Catholicism with African animism-mysticism, disconcerted and sometimes frightened the French.
12Slowly, but surely more Vodou and similar traditions are being brought to the light, where they have always belonged.
13The bastardization of Vodou as a formal religion makes its entré into popular culture with the appearance of W.B.
14In fear of a rival power base, the church repressing Vodou became a recurring theme in Haitian history, McAlister explains.
15Vodou is everywhere in the Caribbean nation, a spiritual system infusing everything from medicine and agriculture to cosmology and arts.
16Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kim after the perfect Instagram photo during a traditional Vodou ceremony at a peristyle in Jacmel, Haiti.