Abstract
This essay uses ethnographic research conducted among Haitian Protestants in the Bahamas in 2005 and 2012 plus internet resources to document the belief among Haitian Protestants (Haitians who practice Protestant forms of Christianity) that Haiti supposedly made a pact with the Devil (Satan) as the result of Bwa Kayiman, a Vodou ceremony that launched the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803). Vodou is the syncretized religion indigenous to Haiti. I argue that this interpretation of Bwa Kayiman is an extension of the negative effects of the globalization of American Fundamentalist Christianity in Haiti and, by extension, peoples of African descent and the Global South.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-5-2019
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10080464
Funding Information
Research for this article was funded by a Fulbright award and a SARIF award from the University of Tennessee.
Repository Citation
Louis, Bertin M. Jr., "Haiti’s Pact with the Devil?: Bwa Kayiman, Haitian Protestant Views of Vodou, and the Future of Haiti" (2019). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 24.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_facpub/24
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Religions, v. 10, issue 8, 464.
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