{"id":550,"date":"2005-10-31T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2005-10-31T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T18:02:00","slug":"550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Voodoo and<\/span> Halloween and<\/span> New Orleans<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some Christian web sites are linking to the ABC news item about Hurricane Katrina allegedly killing the retail voodoo-supply business<\/a> in New Orleans. Plans for today’s celebration continue, however.<\/p>\n

Some Pagan Witches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast find themselves more accepted after Katrina<\/a>. Halloween partiers, meanwhile, cram the French Quarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two months after the monster hurricane’s horrifying rampage, Halloween has brought back the French Quarter’s thirst for theatric horror and debauchery, its Mardi Goth mojo in the heart of a city long known for its reverence for voodoo and Anne Rice’s glamorously gothic vampire novels.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking of Anne Rice<\/a>, much has been made of her return to her Catholic roots and plans to write a multi-volume novel on the life of Jesus. Religion-beat journalist Terry Mattingly, however, raises an interesting question<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Well now, I wonder \u2014 when these books reach the adult life of Jesus \u2014 what we will learn about his relationship with Mary Magdalene? I would not be surprised in Rice\u2019s series turns out to be a major event on the Christian left<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In other words, a bigger literary controversy than that over The Da Vinci Code<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voodoo and Halloween and New Orleans Some Christian web sites are linking to the ABC news item about Hurricane Katrina allegedly killing the retail voodoo-supply business in New Orleans. Plans for today’s celebration continue, however. Some Pagan Witches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast find themselves more accepted after Katrina. 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The first is used mainly by journalists (when they remember), the second by writers and editors\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":513,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=513","url_meta":{"origin":550,"position":4},"title":"Curse of the SuperdomeAll the\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 13, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Curse of the SuperdomeAll the world has seen how the New Orleans Superdome went from being an overnight shelter for hurricane evacuees to a purgatorial waiting room when the city flooded. But maybe you did not know that the structure was already cursed. 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It quotes Haitian President Aristide as saying, \"An ancestral religion, voodoo is an essential part of national identity.\"Priests and priestesses are now asked to register with the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which will allow them to conduct\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}