Voodoo Cindy Gallois and anyone interested in shaping

and anyone interested in shaping a healthier future for Africa's cities and understanding the vibrant and complex realities of its urban life

we need to rediscover the story of the American missionary enterprises of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

from malaria to dengue---dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups

This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives

Voodoo Cindy Gallois and anyone interested in shapingDespite several decades of scholarship on African diasporic religion, Voodoo remains underexamined, and the few books published on the topic contain inaccuracies and outmoded arguments. In Voodoo: An African American Religion, Jeffrey E. Anderson presents a much needed modern account of the faith as it existed in the Mississippi River valley from colonial times to the mid twentieth century, when, he argues, it ceased to thrive as a living tradition.