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Voudon Gnostic Workbook. Michael Bertiaux

Melville Herskovits, Life in a Haitian Valley

Word By Word Basic Haitian/Kreyol Bilingual Edition
by: Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss

Word by Word Picture Dictionary English/Haitian Kreyol Edition (2nd Edition)
by: Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss

Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries (Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu,)
by: Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

Zora Neale, Hurston Tell My Horse.

Waters of Return: The Aeonic Flow of Voudoo.Louis Martinie

New Orleans Voodoo Tarot by Louis Martinie and Sally Ann Glassman and

Vodou Visions. Sally Ann Glassman.

The Santeria Experience. Migeul Gonzalez-Whippler [readable, personal account]

Urban Voodoo. Jason Black/Christopher Hyatt [over-intellectualized "black magick"]

Drum and Candle. David St. Clair [respectful, unintentionally funny Euro-centric]

Voodoo Handbook of Cult Secrets. Anna Rivas

The Serpent and The Rainbow. Wade Davis

Secrets of Voodoo. Milo Regaud [the best on Haitian voodoo]

Voodoo & Hoodoo. Jim Haskins

Sixteen Cowries. William Bascon

The Yoruba Religion. Conrad E. Mauge

The Way of the Orisa. Philip John Neimark

Santeria, African Magic in Latin America. Migene Gonzalez

Santeria, The Religion. Migene Gonzalez Wippler

Rituals and Spells of Santeria. Migene Gonzalez

Powers of the Orishas. Migene Gonzalez

Devotions to the Saints. Anna Rivas

Iba'Se Onsa, Ifa Proverbs, Folktales, Sacred History and Prayer. Awo Fa'lokun Faturumbi

Titulos de Alfred Metraux

Voodoo in Haiti

Voodoo

Haiti, la terre les hommes et les dieux

L'Homme et la terre dans la vallée de Marbial (Haïti)

Il vodu haitiano

Vodou Shaman . Ross Heaven

A Dictionary of World Mythology. Arthur Gtterell

Oya. Judith Gleason

Jambalaya. Luisah Teish [good reads on New Orleans Voodoo (modern)]

Carnival of the Spirit. Luisah Teish [see Jambalaya]

Magic from Mexico. Mary Deune

Divine Horsemen. Maya Deren

Voodoo in Haiti. Alfred Metraux [slightly dated, a good source]

Religious Rites of the Caribbean. George E. Simpson.

The Magic and Folk Beliefs of Southern Negro. Newbell Niles Puckett

Secrets of Voodoo. Milo Rigaud

The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot. Louis Martinie, cards by Sally Ann Glassman [probably the best from a practioner's POV]

Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora Linda Marinda HeywoodHaiti, history, and the gods Escrito por Joan DayanFace of the Gods:
Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas
By Robert F. Thompson
ABIA Book One:
The Key to Black Obeah Voodoo
By Paul W. DanielsFlash of the Spirit. Robert Farris Thompson (Vintage, 1984)

Sacred Arts of Haitian Voodoo
By Donald Cosentino, Fowler Museum

Divine Horsemen:
Living Gods of Haiti
By Maya Deren
Sacred Possessions:
Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean
By Margarite Fernandez Olmos


Secrets of Voodoo by: Milo Rigaud
Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by: Zora Neale Hurston
Paul Brodwin. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge University Press. 1996. 240pp.

Joan Dayan. Haiti, History, and the Gods. University of California Press. 1998. 362pp.

Elizabeth A. McAlister. Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora. University of California Press. 2002. 259pp.

North American Congress on Latin America (editor). Haiti: Dangerous Crossroads. South End Press. 1995. 256pp.

Thomas O. Ott. The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804. University of Tennessee Press. 1973. 232pp.

Robert Percival Parsons. History of Haitian Medicine. P. B. Hoeber. 1930. 196pp.

Roland I. Perusse. Historical Dictionary of Haiti. Scarecrow Press. 1977. 124pp.

OTerry Rey. Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti. Africa World Press. 1999. 362ppn Stranger Tides. Tim Powers, author of The Anubis Gates.

Queen of Angels. Greg Baer

Count Zero. William Gibson

Bone Dance. Emma Bull

Harold Courlander, The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960);

Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (New York: McPherson and Company, 1953);

Katherine Dunham, Island Possessed (Garden City: Doubleday, 1969).

Umbanda
By Diana Degroat Brown


Macumba:
By Serge Bramly


Sacred Leaves of Candomblé:
African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
By Robert A. Voeks


Roger Bastide, African Civilizations in the New World (New York: Harper and Row, 1971)

Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1983).

Green Eyes. Lucius Sheppard

Religions of the African Diaspora
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■Bastide, Roger. O Candomblé da Bahia, Rito Nago. Sao Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1961.Prot
■Bastide, Roger. The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.Prot
■Bastide, Roger. African Civilisations in the New World. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.Prot
■Bastien, Remy. Le Paysan Haitien et sa Famille: Vallée de Marbial. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1985.Prot
■Berkenbrock, Volney J.. A Experiencia dos Orixas: Um Estudo sobre a Experiencia Religiosa no Candomblé. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1998. Prot
■Bisnouth, Dale. History of Religion in the Caribbean. Missing: Missing, 1996.
■Boas Concone, Maria Helena Villas. Umbanda: Uma Religi�o Brasileira. Unpublished master's thesis. São Paulo: University of São Paulo, 1987.Prot
■Brandon, George. Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead sell Memories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
■Brown, Diana. Umbanda: Religion and Politics in Brazil. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1986.African
■Brumana, Fernando Giobellina and Gonzalez Martinez, Elda. Marginalia Sagrada. São Paulo: Editora da UNICAMP, 1991.Prot
■Burdick, John. Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. New York: Routledge, 1998.Prot
■Carozzi, María Julia and Frigerio, Alejandro. "Nâo se Nasce Batuqueiro: A Conversâo as Religiôes Afro-Brasileiras em Buenos Aires." Religiâo e Sociedade 18 (1) 1997, pp. 71-94.Prot
■Carneiro, Edison. Candombles da Bahia. Rio de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brasileira, 1977.Prot
■Cohen, Thomas M.. The Fire of Tongues: António Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 spirit.
■Costa Lima, Vivaldo da. Encontro de Naçôes de Condomblê. Salvador: Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos da Universidade Federal de Bahia e Ianamá, 1984.Prot
■Cros Sandoval, Mercedes. La religión afrocubana. Madrid: Editoral Playor , 1975.African
■Cruz, Samuel. Afro-Caribbean Influences in Puerto Rican Pentecostalism. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Drew University, 2004.Prot
■Davis, Wade. The Serpent and the Rainbow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.African
■Davis, Wade. Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.Prot
■Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.Prot
■Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen; Voodoo Gods of Haiti. New York: Chelsea House, 1970.Prot
■Deren, Maya. The Voodoo Gods. St Albans, UK: Paladin, 1975.African
■Desmangles, Leslie G.. The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.Prot
■Fernandez Olmos, Margarite and Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth (Editors.) Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
■Ferreira de Camargo, Candido Procopio. Kardecismo e Umbanda; Uma Interpretacao Sociologica. São Paulo: Livraria Pioneira Editora, 1961.Prot
■Frigerio, Alejandro. With the Banner of Oxalá: Social Construction and Maintenance of Reality in Afro-Brazilian Religions in Argentina. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of California at Los Angeles,1989.Prot
■Frigerio, Alejandro and Oro, Ari Pedro. "Sectas Satánicas en el Mercado Sur. Un Estudio de la Construcción de la Desviación Religiosa en los Medios de Comunicación de Argentina y Brasil." Horizontes Antropólicos 8, 1998, pp. 114-150.Prot
■Frigerio, Alejandro. " La Invasión de las Sectas: El Debate sobre Nuevos Movimientos Religiosos en los Medios de Comunicación de Argentina." Sociedad y Religión 10/11,1993, pp. 24-51.Prot
■Gates, Brian. Afro-Caribbean Religions. London: Ward Lock, 1980.African
■Glazier, Stephen. Marching the Pilgrims Home: Leadership and Decision Making in an Afro-Caribbean Faith. Westport CN: Greenwood Press, 1983.African
■Gonzalez-Wippler, Migene. Santería: The Religion. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Press, 1994.African
■Gossai, Hemchand and Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel (Editors.) Religion, Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 2000.African
■Greenfield, Sidney and Droogers, André. Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001 .African
■Groat-Brown, Diana de. Umbanda: Religion and Politics in Urban Brazil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.Prot
■Guillermoprieto, Alma. " Letter from Rio." The Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now ( pp.missing). New York: Knopf, 1994.Prot
■Hess, David. Samba in the Night : Spiritism in Brazil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.Prot
■Hess, David. Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.Prot
■Hess, David. New Sciences, New Gods: Spiritism and Questions of Religious Pluralism in Latin America. 1992. Occasional Paper No. 11, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 1992 Providence, R.I. pp. 29-30..Prot
■Houk, James T.. Spirit, Blood and Drums: The Orisha Religion in Trinidad. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995.African
■Lachatañeré, R.. El Sistema Religioso de los Lucumís y otras Influencias Africanas en Cuba. La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Caribe, 1940.African
■Lachatañeré, R.. Oh Mío, Yemayá. Manzanillo, Cuba: Editorial El Arte, 1938.African
■Leacock, Seth and Leacock, Ruth. Spirits of the Deep: A Study of an Afro-Brazilian Cult. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Natural History Press, 1972.African
■McCathy Brown, Karen. Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn. Missing: Missing, 1991.Prot
■Métraux, Alfred. Voodoo in Haiti. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.Prot
■Métraux, Alfred. "Les Rites d'Initiation dans le Vodou Haïtien ." Tribus 4/5,1954-1955, pp. 177-198.Prot
■Métraux, Alfred. "Toward an Afro-American History." Cahier d"Histoire Mondiale 13, 1971, pp. 317-332.Prot
■Morrish, Ivor. Obeah, Christ, and Rastaman: Jamaica and its Religion. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke, 1982.African
■Motta, Roberto. The Churchifying of Candomblé: Priests, Anthropologists, and the Canonization of African Religious Memory. Paper given at Latin American Studies Assn. International Congress, 1992. Prot
■Motta, Roberto. " Indo-Afro-European Syncretic Cults in Brazil: Their Economic and Social Roots." Cahiers du Brasil Contemporain 5, 1988, pp. 27-48.Prot
■Moura, C.E.M.. As Senhoras do Pássaro da Noite: Escritos sobre a Religião dos Orixás. São Paulo: EDUSP, 1994.
■Mulrain, George MacDonald. Theology in Folk Culture: The Theological Significance of Haitian Folk Religion. New York: Peter Lang, 1984.African
■Murphy, Joseph. Santería: An African Religion in the United States. Boston: Beacon Place, 1988.Prot
■Novaies, Regina. Os Escolhidos de Deus. Cadernos do ISER, 19 . Rio de Janeiro: Editora Marco Zero, 1985 .African
■Oro, Ari Pedro. Axe Mercosul: As Religioes Afro-Brasileiras nos Paises do Prata. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes, 1999.Prot
■Owens, Joseph. Dread: The Rastafarians of Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Sangster, 1976.African
■Palmie, Stephan. Wizards and Scientists: An Exploration of Afro-Cuban Modernity and Traditions. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.African
■Piepke, Joachim. "The Religious Heritage of Africa in Brazil: Investigations about the Religiosity of the Afro-Brazilians Today." Verbum SVD 33(2) 1992, pp.174-175.Prot
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■Price-Mars, J.. Ainsi Parla L'Oncle. Montreal: Lemeac, 1973.Prot
■Ringenberg, Roger. Rastafariansim: An Expanding Jamaican Cult. Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica Theology Seminary, 1978.African
■Robbins, Thomas and Anthony, Dick (Editors.) In Gods We Trust. Missing: Transaction Books, 1989. African
■Rodman, Selden and Cleaver Carole. Spirits of the Night: The Vaudun Gods of Haiti. Dallas TX: Spring Publications, 1992.African
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