Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti's three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism. Scholars, researchers, and faith practitioners have often depicted relations between these traditions as antagonistic, conflicting, unproductive, and lacking in mutual understanding. With the aim of exploring the possibility of nation building in Haiti and the benefits of interreligious collaboration, contributors to this book consider topics such as the obstacles to interfaith dialogue, religious conflict, interreligious dialogue in schools, race and identity, and religious pluralism. This book will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians, and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.

Scholars, researchers and faith practitioners have characterized the history of Haiti's two dominant religious traditions - Christianity and Vodou - as antagonistic, conflicting, unproductive and lacking in mutual understanding. Historically and practically, the problem between these two faith traditions lies in their resistance to building constructive channels toward mutual understanding, peace, interfaith dialogue, interreligious collaboration and partnership. These pivotal concerns have not only had a tremendous impact on nation-building in Haiti, but have also weakened Haitian democracy and challenged religious freedom and expression. Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this volume is an attempt to fill that gap for the English speaking world and make a resource available which will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.