I recently bough Santeria: La Religion by Migene Gonzaqlez-Wippler. The book is actually very good. Despite being in Spanish, I understand most of it well. I also like her full disclosure of from where she is coming: from an outsider, who was mislead, to an initiate who sought out and eventually was given the correct answers and information to the questions she was pondering. It is also quite frank: nothing to whitewash the religion.
I am wondering whether there is a similar, academically-sound book on Vodoun. I don’t want some New Age claptrap, stereotypical rubbish, or the like. I know there is one book out there, but one comment made me suspicious: the book is basically a rehash of the author’s previous book on New Orleans Tarot. As mentioned before, no New Age claptrap. I know the Vodouisants do not use Tarot - maybe shells or stones or something.
Initially, I thought there wold be little, of any, differences between Santeria and Vodoun. After all, they’re both Afrogenous religions, and most of them are the same with a few differences. But evidently there is more to this than what I thought. Vodoun and Santeria not only have devloped in different parts of the Americas and under different languages but they also come from different parts of Africa. In contrast, the Santeria family (Candomble, Macumba, Santeria, Chango, etc.) has come from basically the same area of Africa.
So, any resources, especially books, about real Vodoun that you’d recommend?
WRS - [insert witty comment in French on Vodou]