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Terry Rey currently works at the Department of Religion, Temple University. Terry does research in Other Religions and Comparative Religion. His most recent book is The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbe Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba. By Jalane D. Schmidt . Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. ix + 357 pp. $94.95 cloth; $26.95 paper. - Volume 86 Issue 3 - Terry Rey
Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social theorists of our time. He developed a series of concepts to uncover the way society works and to challenge assumptions about what society is. His ideas illuminate how individuals and groups find value and meaning and so have rapidly come to be seen as hugely productive in analysing how religion...
For at least 125 years, the cult of St Philomena has enjoyed tremendous popularity in and around the northern Haitian seaside village of Bord de Mer de Limonade, just ten kilometers east of Cape Haitian, the country’s second largest city. Though periodically suppressed by the Catholic Church hierarchy because of freewheeling syncretism between the...
The convergence of African religion and Christianity in the Atlantic world has inspired some of the most significant and most analyzed examples of syncretism in the study of religion. Scholarly discussions of these phenomena, however, tend to portray religions like Vodou in Haiti and Candomblé in Brazil as mergers of various Euro-Christian and ''tr...
This paper explores one of the most impressive developments in Haitian religion over the last few decades, that of the Catholic Renewal, situating it in the context of broader social and political change and gauging its trajectory in the course of modern Haitian religious history. While not ignoring the important and related issues of syncretism an...
A single communications device has transformed interactions between members of widely dispersed transnational Haitian religious communities: the audiocassette recorder. Messages, hymns and prayers taped on them crisscross the sea between Haiti and its diaspora, engaging distantly separated co-religionists in sporadically sequenced, yet effectively...
Miami's diverse religious landscape stretches not only across Miami-Dade County, but throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Indeed, many of these religious activities may appear to be more foreign than "American," not of the United States. Are they? Do they focus exclusively or even primarily on immigrants' home countries and perhaps isolate t...
On October 27, 1983, a Polish American Catholic priest named Thomas Wenski led 140 Haitian immigrants in somber procession beneath the majestic oaks that grace the churchyard of Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Little Haiti, one of Miami's most depressed inner-city neighborhoods. There they joined hands in a circle and prayerfully erected a la...
Through case studies of Christian congregations and a survey of college freshmen, this volume has examined the relationships between civic engagement and religion for immigrants and African Americans. Through the concept of civic social capital (CSC), it most fundamentally addresses these relationships within the context of the social and cultural...
Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City focuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. The contributors examine the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world. Copyright
Upon a stage in the yard of St. Ann Mission Catholic Church in rural southern Miami-Dade County stand six Mexican American youths costumed as Aztec warriors, performing act ? of the play El Más Pequeno de Mis Hijos (The Least of My Children). On an altar before them lies a pretty, young, motionless woman dressed in white. Before a backdrop of mount...
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel are to be applauded for editing this slim volume, the first-ever collection of essays on Vodou written entirely by Haitian scholars. A welcome book, Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality contains mostly original material and some compelling insight into the nature of this extraordinary New World Afric...
An expertly researched and fascinating historical study of "cultural recuperation" and "cultural generation"(p. 18), Rituals of Resistance is a major contribution to our understanding of African Atlantic religion. Carefully discussing the Kongo kingdom as it was fracturing under the violence of the transatlantic slave trade and craftily mining a wi...
This article surveys the relationship between Catholicism and human rights during four periods of Haitian history: (1) the colonial era of plantation slavery; (2) the 'antisuperstitious' campaigns from 1898 to 1943; (3) the dictatorship of François Duvalier from 1957–1971; and (4) the rise and fall of liberation theology in Haiti from the mid 1970s...
Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplendent visual culture of Haiti and its diaspora.1 Whether in the mountains of Haiti or the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, however, their meanings vary and are contested among Haitian believers. For Catholics, the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater are...
The meeting of traditional African religion and Catholicism in the Americas has produced some of the most significant and most analyzed examples of syncretism in the history of religions. Much scholarly discussion of this phenomenon, however, tends to portray religions such as Candomblé in Brazil and Voodou in Haiti as formalistic conglomerations o...
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...
Pierre Bourdieu's work has had a resounding impact on disciplines ranging from linguistics to anthropology to art history to literary criticism. Scholars of religion have, however, been relatively slow to catch on to the theoretical gold mine that academics in other fields have discovered in Bourdieu's work, doubtless in part because Bourdieu himse...
This article provides rich ethnographic description of the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in June 2002 at Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Miami, one of the most important public events in Haitian immigrant religion. By comparing the Patronal Feast in Miami with its counterpart in Haiti, I challenge scholarly exaggerations about the degre...
Drawing on historical analyses of the role of religion in the Haitian Revolution and on neo-Weberian discussions of charisma, this article offers new insights into the background of Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a religious leader of slave insurrections in Saint-Domingue whose campaign lasted from the summer of 1791 to March of the following year. Worsle...
The Catholic Historical Review 88.3 (2002) 519-545
In many countries where Catholicism is the dominant religion, personal religious and collective national identity are extensively conditioned by the imagery and names of a national patron saint. Two of the most striking examples of this phenomenon are the cults of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland...
Religion, Culture, and Tradition in the Caribbean. Edited by GossaiHemchand and MurrellNathaniel Samuel. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. x + 320 pp. $49.95 cloth. - Volume 70 Issue 3 - Terry Rey
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. John K. Thornton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. viii +228 pp., six illustrations and two maps. (Cloth USS49.95, Paper US$15.95)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Temple University, 1996. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 412-429). Photocopy.
As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Ãrìsà . This book explores the emergence of Ãrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the history of the human religious quest. Originating among the Yorùbá people of West Afric...
