talesofthestarshipregeneration:
waterfrommymind:
talesofthestarshipregeneration:
heartlandfemme:
talesofthestarshipregeneration:
Zora Neale Hurston wrote Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Jewell Parker Rhodes wrote Voodoo Dreams a novel of Marie Laveau. Who else?
My love, My Love by Rosa Guy, Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, Yvonne Chireau’s Black Magic, Katrina Hazzard-Donald’s “Mojo Workin” are some really good ones.
Thank you!
The Faces of the Gods by Leslie G. Desmangles, a book recommended to me by a Vodou priestess
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Broadly interpreting, to bring in other Afro-Diasporic religions:
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel, _Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality_
Kamari Maxine Clarke, _Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities_
Yvonne Daniel, _Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé_
Dianne M. Stewart [Diakité], _Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience_
Katherine Dunham, _Island Possessed_
Rachel E Harding, _A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness_
Tracey E. Hucks, _Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism_
J. Lorand Matory, _Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé_
Lorna McDaniel, _The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs for Rememory of Flight_
Luisah Teish, _Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals_
Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara, _Manipulating the Sacred: Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé_
Marta Moreno Vega, _The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria_
Jason R. Young, _Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery_
