Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article illustrates the various ethno-religious streams that have fertilized Haiti’s thriving pilgrimage traditions. With particular focus on the cults and feasts of St. James the Greater/Ogou Feray in La-Plaine-du-Nord and of St. Philomena/Lasyrenn in Bord-de-Mer-de-Limonade, and with a careful consideration of Kongolese religious culture (both Catholic and traditional), a convincing case is made here that pilgrimage in Haiti owes much more to Central African traditions than is generally acknowledged by scholars of Vodou, who over-emphasize the religion’s West African roots.
DOI: 10.4000/jsa.2889
Author: Terry Rey
Institution: Temple University
Language: French
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1566370559