Understanding African Religious Practices in Colonial and Post-Colonial Ayiti - Softcover

Desrosiers, Paultre Pierre

9781077256415: Understanding African Religious Practices in Colonial and Post-Colonial Ayiti

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ISBN 10: 1077256418 ISBN 13: 9781077256415

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

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A very unique quality of African religious practices in Ayiti is that it is trans-cultural and trans-generational. It is transcultural,because of the vast and indelible imprint of many world cultures creating a new African belief system that embodiescultural ideals and values central to the lives of the Ayitian people. It is trans-generational because the ancestors have beenable to perpetuate their heritage (Ko Ako ni maci) in spite adverse conditions, and their descendants have, through the years,preserve and rethink the fundamental cultural heirlooms that their forefathers carried into captivity. They have been able toretain a system of values, attitudes, and beliefs, which provide people with a mechanism to understand the world in which they live and have been able to transform the colonial icons into more acceptable and distinctive African religious materials closely 2 associated with African concepts of identity, language and culture.This book explores the evolution, character, and dynamics of African religious practices in colonial and post-colonial Ayiti and analyzes early phases of religious transformations stimulated by the encounter between indigenous, European and the African religious practices. It traces the development of these practices in Ayiti from its sources in the brilliant civilizations ofancient Africa to new belief systems and practices. It illustrates the cross-cultural dynamics of African-based religious systems in colonial and post-colonial Ayiti, the possibilities and limits of the African Diaspora retention of African religious practices and the construction of belief systems as affected by differing colonial histories and landscapes.In addition, the book emphasizes the extent to which the many African religious practices and the so-called “Ayitian Vodun” shed light on one another, highlighting the unity and diversity of their cultural universe and expressed African cultures' plasticity and flexibility towards change. It is a trend that has begun by many authors and which hopefully will be continued and expanded. The analysis of the plurality of the various African religious practices in Ayiti, is rather intricate, owing to the interaction of elements of different African, European and the differing individual and social group perceptions about Ayitian Vodun resulting from this complexity. Nevertheless, one of these African-derived religious practices, better known as Ayitian Vodun, is an extraordinarily complexreligion with multifaceted phenomenon that comprises cognition, behavior, experience and a considerable cultural wealthcharacterized by an extremely complex cultural mosaic.

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