Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is Professor of Africology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of Haiti: The Beached Citadel and In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the New World. He is a houngan asogwe, a priest of Vodou.
Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Aspects Educatifs et Moraux du Vodou Haitien and co-author of Théories du Développement de l'Enfant: Etudes Comparatives. She edits the Journal of Haitian Studies.

Contents
IntroductionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel
1. Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun ReligionGuérin C. Montilus
2. Shadow-Matter Universes in Haitian and Dagara Ontologies: A Comparative StudyRéginald O. Crosley
3. Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories, and National HistoryPatrick Bellegarde-Smith
4. Of Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Educational Character of Haitian VodouClaudine Michel
5. Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and IdentityGerdès Fleurant
6. Vodoun, Peasant Songs, and Political OrganizingRénald Clérismé
7. From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/Women's WorldsClaudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Marlène Racine-Toussaint
8. Rainbow over Water: Art, Vodou Aestheticism, and PhilosophyMarc A. Christophe
9. A Reading of the Marasa Concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-MiroirFlorence Bellande-Robertson
10. Herbs and Energy: The Holistic Medical System of the Haitian PeopleMax-G. Beauvoir
ConclusionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel
Appendix: Table of Haitian Lwa
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index