The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940
by
Kodi A. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their American-born descendants. Instead, a much more...