Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti

Celucien L. Joseph is Professor and Chair of the English Department at San Jacinto College, USA. Lewis A. Clorméus is an associate research scholar in the Department of African American Studies at Yale University, USA.

Introduction Understanding Haitian Evangelicalism, Vodou, and Catholicism in
Local and Transnational-diasporic Context, Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA) and Lewis A. Clorméus, (State University of Haiti, Haiti)
Part I: Roots of Religious Disagreement and Interreligious Conflict
1. The Reception of Protestant students in Catholic Schools in Port-au-Prince-Haiti, Lewis A. Clorméus (State University of Haiti, Haiti)
translated by Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA)
2. Visions and Obstacles to Interfaith Dialogue in a Popular Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince: The case of Poste-Marchand, Jean Müller François and Bertin M. Louis, Jr., Translated by Duke Gee
3. In Praise of Peace, Reconciliation, and Nation-Building: The Possibility and Promise of Interreligious Dialogue, Celucien L. Joseph (San Jacinto College, USA)
Part II Dynamics and Exchanges between the Religions in the Haitian Society
4. The Religious Conflict between Catholics and Evangelicals in Haitian society, Marcus Torchon
5. “We Pray, We Dance, and People are Healed, but We are not like them”: Haiti’s Konvèti Consensus and its limits Lenny J. Lowe
Part III Religion, Class, and Race in Transnational Context in the Haitian Diaspora
6. Symbolic Boundaries Among Evangelical Bahamians of Haitian Descent and Haitian Evangelicals in the Bahamas, Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
7. Race and Protestant Christianity in Haiti: the nineteenth century colorism and beyond, Minjung Noh
8. Conversion and Carnival: Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in a Transnational Haitian Community, Karen Richman
9. In Between Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Dynamics of Identity, Belonging, Transnational Migration and Religious Pluralism, Karen Richman and Elizabeth McAlister
Index