Voodoo and Power - 9780807160503

Voodoo and PowerThe Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940\nAuthor(s): Kodi A. Roberts\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807160503, 978-0807160503\nSynopsis\nThe 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 complicated patchwork of influences created New Orleans Voodoo, allowing it to move across boundaries of race, class, and gender. By employing late nineteenth and early twentieth-century first-hand accounts of Voodoo practitioners and their rituals, Roberts provides a nuanced understanding of who practiced Voodoo and why.\n\nVoodoo in New Orleans, a melange of religion, entrepreneurship, and business networks, stretched across .