Beacon Press25 Beacon StreetBoston, Massachusetts 021082892Beacon Press booksar

e published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Cong

regations.1994 by Joseph M. Murphy All rights reservedPrinted in the United State
s of Americahe author would like to thank Judith Gleason for permission to usema
terial from her film The King Does Not Lie; song from Life in a Haitian Valley b
y Melville J. Herskovits, copyright 1937 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,renewed 1965 b
y Frances S. Herskovits, reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., songs
from Voodoo Heritage by Michel Laguerre, copyright1980 by SAGE Publications, In
c., reprinted by permission of SAGEPublications, Inc.Library of Congress Catalog
ing-in-Publication DataMurphy, Joseph M., 1951-Working the spirit : ceremonies o
f the African diaspora / JosephM. Murphy.p. cm.Includes bibliographical referenc
es and index.ISBN 0-8070-1220-3 (cloth)ISBN 0-8070-1221-1 (paper)1. Afro-America
nsReligion. 2. BlacksLatin AmericaReligion.3. Voodooism. 4. African diaspora. I.
Title.BL2490.M87 1994200'.89'96dc20 93-392999 8 7 6 5 4ext design by David Bull
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