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The Voodoo Gospel And The Christian Gospel, William Dewitt Burton
The Voodoo Gospel And The Christian Gospel, William Dewitt Burton
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When on September 4, 1950 I went to the Republic of Haiti as a missionary for the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, U.S.A., I found Voodoo to be far more prevalent there than I had been led to believe, and I was very ill-prepared to cope with it in the rural area where I was assigned to work. I knew also that after two years I was to go to Liberia, ' West Africa, where I would find a similar situation. I then set about to learn all that I could about Voodoo.
Two main reasons, then, led me …