Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

Name: Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
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ISBN: 9780520077805

ISBN-10: 0520077806

ISBN-13: 9780520077805

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Karen McCarthy Brown

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Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Mama Lola's daughter Maggie, a recent initiate and the designated heir to her Brooklyn-based healing practice. Out of these stories, in which dream and vision flavor everyday experience and the Vodou spirits guide decision making, Vodou emerges as a religion focused on healing brought about by mending…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/2/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English