The Vodou ethic and the spirit of communism : the practical consciousness of the African People of Haiti /

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism and the "counter-plantation system" (Jean Casimir's term)...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mocombe, Paul C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, 2016.
Subjects:
Vodou > Haiti > Rituals.
Communism > Haiti.
Vaudou > Haïti > Rituel.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Communism
Vodou > Rituals
Haiti
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theorizing about the Constitution of Black Practical Consciousnesses in Haiti; 2 Phenomenological Structuralism; 3 A Phenomenological Structural Constitution of Modern Society; 4 A Phenomenological Structural Constitution of Haitian Society; 5 Conclusions; References Cited; Index

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