Table of Contents:
  • Prescript
  • Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world: a thematic overview
  • Disruptive intersection: slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo
  • The search for High John the Conquer
  • Crisis at the crossroads: sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's old black tradition from Emancipation to World War II
  • The demise of Dr. Buzzard: black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars
  • Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid: Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters
  • Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment
  • Postscript.