a1708: Re: a1702: You say Voodoo, I say Vodou (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Elizabeth McAlister <emcalister@mail.wesleyan.edu>

For what this is worth:  I was just asked to write the Encyclopedia
Britannica entry on "Voodoo."  I only accepted to write if they
agreed to spell it "Vodou."  They agreed.  I wrote the entry of a
religious tradition, spelling out its history and main theological
tenets.  It will replace a very racist/imperialist entry that's there
now.  Slowly,  the new wave of writers, artists and representers,
will force change and respect.


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Elizabeth McAlister, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT  06459-0029, USA
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Yale University
New Haven, CT  06520, USA

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