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With her description and critical analyses of Vodun, Dana Rush reveals the art and philosophy of a religious culture that has become the dominant aesthetic for the Black Atlantic world, from Ouidah to Port-au-Prince to South Central L.A. Rush's book will become a standard reference on Vodun/Vodou/Voodoo. - Donald Consentino, Professor, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, and Curator, In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art Rush constructs an elegant and convincing theoretical framework . . . supported by extensive ethnographic work in multiple sites. A rich and nuanced contribution to the literature on global Vodun in all its manifestations-from India to Brazil and the Caribbean, along with insights into slavery and its meanings in the Atlantic world-this book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of African-derived religions in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and even North America. In this work Rush paradoxically moves us closer to understanding that which, she argues compellingly, cannot be understood. - Edna G. Bay, Professor of Interdisciplinary and African Studies, Emory University, and author of Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art

Rush constructs an elegant and convincing theoretical framework . . . supported by extensive ethnographic work in multiple sites. A rich and nuanced contribution to the literature on global Vodun in all its manifestations--from India to Brazil and the Caribbean, along with insights into slavery and its meanings in the Atlantic world--this book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of African-derived religions in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and even North America. In this work Rush paradoxically moves us closer to understanding that which, she argues compellingly, cannot be understood. --Edna G. Bay, Professor of Interdisciplinary and African Studies, Emory University, and author of Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art

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Dana Rush, a Research Affiliate in the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, is a consulting editor for African Arts and serves on the advisory board of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief.

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