TRACES OF VODOUIN HAITIAN FREEMASONRY

Abstract

The inquiry in this research builds on certain insights to uncover how various institutions of
Vodou
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practices take shape, converge, and become rearticulated in the networks of transnational
linkages within and in relation to Freemasonry in Haiti. Some scholarly sources connote the
issue with a close assumption examining the symbolic similarities that, European Freemasonry is
readily adepted into Vodou. This article, furthermore seeks to reach a coherent whole, in the idea
that, there might be a connection between Haitian naitional identity and Freemasonry, through
Vodou practices. Even though significant literature, reveals the impacts of both Freemasonry and
Vodou on each other in Haiti and the major claim is that Freemasonry and the principal masonic
utopias, paved the way to transnationalism in Haiti; the primary objective of the study is, not to
examine the theological substructure of syncretistic Haitian religions. Nor it will be the major
interest to trace here, the formation of Vodou as a religion on the Hispaňola Island. Nevertheless,
in order to depict a realistic historical perspective of cultural emancipation of Haiti, Vodou is
steressed in corresponding aspects