Voodoo
African spiritualities are attracting Black Americans as a source of pride and identity
By Fiona André — March 21, 2024
(RNS) — Ancestral veneration, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, Cuban Santería and Ifá have gained attention among Black adults, who see it as an occasion to reconnect with their heritage and celebrate their Blackness.
How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur
By Danielle N. Boaz — January 24, 2024
(The Conversation) — Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.
How to make a thousand witches with one Supreme Court decision
By Heather Greene — June 6, 2022
(RNS) — Magic has always been, in lore and in life, a tool of the oppressed.
Winter books: The ‘Me! Me! Memoir’ edition
By Kimberly Winston — December 5, 2017
(RNS) — Here are 10 memoirs that blend the spiritual or religious with politics, mental health, death and dying, marriage, motherhood, divorce, academia and founding a business.
Sally Quinn, Magic, and Meaning
By Jana Riess — September 12, 2017
Journalist Sally Quinn is probably best known for fifty years of reporting on Washington's social scene. In the last decade, though, her focus has turned to faith, and it's been personal as well as professional.
Haiti’s supreme leader of voodoo, Max Beauvoir, has died
By Reuters — September 14, 2015
Voodoo, often misrepresented as a black magic cult, "heals the mind, soul and body," the Port-a-Prince priest once said.
Santeria, Scientology, Satanism — oh my! Atheist author explores minority religions
By Chris Stedman — February 20, 2014
How much do you know about Santeria, Scientology, or Satanism? Atheist author Dr. Karen Stollznow tells RNS why all people, religious and nonreligious alike, need to learn about minority religions.
Zombies 101? Monmouth University joins colleges offering courses on the undead
By Kelly Heyboer — November 18, 2013
(RNS) Monmouth University is among several colleges jumping on the zombie scholarship bandwagon. The University of Baltimore and Columbia College in Chicago both offer zombie studies classes. Michigan State University offered a two-credit course last summer on surviving the zombie apocalypse in which students were placed in survivor groups in a simulated zombie attack.
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