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Article: The Catholic Church in Haiti: Political and Social Change
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- October 1, 1997
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The Catholic Church in Haiti: Political and Social Change. By Anne Greene. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 1993. Pp. vii, 312. $28.95.)
Paradoxically Haiti's history is richer than the country itself. Not much is scientificaly known about its religious history, aside from myths created by Hollywood through the distortion of what Voodoo really is. But this poor country is more than this African religion. And that is what Greene shows the reader through this book. I would call this a ground-breaking study of an important part of Haiti's religious history.
Since the time when the whole of Hispaniola was under Spanish control, the official religion of the colony was ...