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Title: Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Updated and Expanded Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) by Karen McCarthy Brown ISBN: 0-520-22475-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating portrait of a strong, vibrant Vodou priestess
Comment: I found this to be one of the most fascinating books I've ever read, on any subject! The author's relationship with Mama Lola is the heart of this moving portrait of the Haitian immigrant community in Brooklyn. This book should be required reading for the scores of folks still harboring negative stereotypes of Vodou (please, people, forget all that sensationalistic Hollywood garbage!); it will take its place besides Luisah Teish's works as the definitive portraits of Vodou as a strong, empowering force for women. Brown herself was initiated into the Vodou community while on a trip to Haiti with Mama Lola and her family in 1981; her life has never been the same! Yours won't either, after reading this wonderful book. Required reading for all serious students of comparative religion and women's studies!
Rating: 5
Summary: Mama Lola I feel like I know you
Comment: A friend recently reccomended this book to me. She lent me her copy and after only the first few pages I was hooked. This is a warm and compassionante story of a beautiful and powerfull priestess. Anyone who is looking for a book that will tantalize and fill them with joy should buy this one.
This book will keep you wanting more all the time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Touching Spirits
Comment: MAMA LOLA: A VODOU PRIESTESS IN BROOKLYN by Karen McCarthy Brown is a brilliant book. The odd chapters are stories about the vodou priestess's family and heritage. The even chapters are about different lwa (loa or spirits) of the Vodou religion and relate in some way to the chapter that precedes it. Brown does the unthinkable, she leaves her anthropological observer roll and becomes an initiate into the religion, but it works. She is able to explain the relationship between the vodou adherent and the spirits in terms of what happens in the world of Haiti and the Haitian community in the United States. Her outsider's eye gives us logical explanations and her part as a participant allows the reader to feel empathy and emotion for the devotees of a much misunderstood religion.
This book includes a Glossary of Haitian Creole Terms, Bibliography, and Index. There are a few select and choice black and white photos in the book, which bring the text some added meaning.
This book is highly recommended for those studying comparative religion and those with an interest in religions of the African diaspora.
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Title: Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories by Benson Saler ISBN: 1571812199 Publisher: Berghahn Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Road to Guadalupe: A Modern Pilgrimage to the Goddess of the Americas by Eryk Hanut ISBN: 1585421200 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions by Sudhir Kakar ISBN: 0226422798 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Vodou Visions : An Encounter with Divine Mystery by Sallie Ann Glassman ISBN: 0375753702 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 by Charles R. Hale ISBN: 0804728003 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr (S) Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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