{"id":32,"date":"2003-08-09T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-09T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2003-08-09T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-09T16:38:00","slug":"african-religions-attracting-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"African Religions Attracting Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not really new news, but the growth of religions of the African diaspora attracted the attention of this reporter.<\/a><\/p>\n

From what I hear elsewhere, it is actually the new converts–not all of them necessarily of African descent–who are most insistent about purging Voudoun, etc., of syncretized Christian elements in order to make them purely Pagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not really new news, but the growth of religions of the African diaspora attracted the attention of this reporter. From what I hear elsewhere, it is actually the new converts–not all of them necessarily of African descent–who are most insistent about purging Voudoun, etc., of syncretized Christian elements in order to make them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,5,9],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-voudoun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":0},"title":"Voudoun gets official recognition in Haiti","author":"Chas S. 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Don't open that door!\" sort of plot, but what gives it its twist--more than the conjured Hoodoo atmosphere that the movie tries to evoke and the echoes of Mia\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"New Orleans\"","block_context":{"text":"New Orleans","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=new-orleans"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=91","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":4},"title":"Interest in Vodou Surges As\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 3, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Interest in Vodou Surges As long as I am on the topic of Vodou\/Voodoo\/Voudoun, this New York Times story ties a \"surging revival of interest\" in the religion to 9\/11, oddly enough. (Free registration required to read the article.) \"The appeal of voodoo now cuts across racial and national lines.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1131,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1131","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":5},"title":"Performance Studies and Reality Television","author":"Chas S. 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