| Conjure descends from West African vodun and appears in these tales as a natural religion that has taken root in the American Southern landscape. |
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| For visitors, the resurgence of vodun offers a chance to catch a rare glimpse of an indigenous culture's spiritual practices. |
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| Rather than following the Afro-Atlantic Haitian religion more properly termed vodun, she had, in fact, been a devotee of the related Cuban religion Santeria. |
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| A native of Mono, in the south west of Benin, he brought to the combo the spirit and rhythms of vodun, practised in the Gulf of Guinea. |
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| Build the melodies on African modes that may well hark back to those vodun chants. |
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| The 3-2 rhythm that is typical of Afro-Cuban music from the end of the 16th century in Santiago de Cuba, the black town of the island, has its origins in the vodun rhythms of South Benin, Togo and Nigeria. |
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| He introduced the use of bells into Africando, as well as certain particularly vodun percussions and rhythms, which paradoxically drew the combo closer to Cuba. |
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| It was here that the white-robed pontiff and the pink-robed great chief of Benin's vodun cult reached out to each other in friendship. |
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| His bas-reliefs are found throughout Benin, in restaurants, and hotels, representing diverse subjects ranging from royal motifs to Vodun symbols. |
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| Vodun is an ancient religion practiced by some 30 million people in the West African nations of Benin, Togo and Ghana. |
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| Some Vodun spirits were borrowed from the Yoruba religion, and Vodun involves divination and spirit possession. |
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| He painted Avlekete, the Fon spirit of the sea, outside, next to the wall of juxtaposed African and African Diaspora Vodun symbols. |
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| This Haitian Vodou praise exclamation was immediately picked up and repeated by all of the Beninese participants as if it had already become part of Benin's Vodun liturgy. |
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| Selling Vodun flags to outsiders is believed to have started in the 1950s, when tourists began catching glimpses of sparkling Vodun flags at staged ceremonies. |
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| Chapter 3 unfolds rigourous comparative analysis of spiritual flight among large Diasporan rituals, such as Vodun, Orisa, Shango, Rastafari, and Spiritual Baptist ceremonies. |
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