Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Editor’s Note: Millery Polyné, a Haitian-American professor at the Gallatin School-NYU, teaches African-American and Caribbean history. Elizabeth McAlister is a religion and African-American studies ...

The animistic aspect of Vodou is reflected in the use of a stalagmite as a fertility altar; female Vodouisants tie their scarves around it, or even embrace it, to tap the stone’s powers to promote ...

Reza Aslan is the host of the new spiritual adventure series Believer, which tackles the battle between evangelical Christianity and Vodou in Haiti in this Sunday’s episode on CNN 7PT/10ET. After the ...

Photographer Anthony Karen said he first became fascinated with Haiti after seeing a documentary in 1982 about the United States’ role in eradicating the Creole pig in Haiti. “The Creole pig was a ...

Before we go any further, it should be made clear that the name of the Field Museum’s new exhibit is pronounced “voh-DOO.” Also, vodouists don’t make those little cloth dolls to curse their enemies; ...

WHAT: “Sacred Symbols in Sequins: Vintage Haitian Vodou Flags” WHERE: Gallery I, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock WHEN: Through July 26. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...

Cet ouvrage met en lumière un aspect trop peu étudié jusqu'ici du vodou haïtien : le statut d'égalité des femmes avec les hommes dans le cadre du culte. L'originalité, de cette situation par rapport ...

A North Carolina man is asking for answers after his mom died while on a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Dana Jackson, 51, wanted to become a Manbo priestess. A Manbo priestess “is a female ritual specialist ...