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Books
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Race, Nation and Religion in the Americas
Oxford Press (2004), Elizabeth McAlister
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Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora
UC Press (2002), Elizabeth McAlister
Articles in Journals
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Caribbean Women’s Fugitive Speech Traditions
Women in French Studies (2019), Elizabeth McAlister
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The militarization of prayer in America: white and Native American spiritual warfare
Journal of Religious and Political Practice (2015), Elizabeth McAlister
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From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewritin
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (2012), Elizabeth McAlister
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (2013), Elizabeth McAlister
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Globalization and the Religious Production of Space
J Scientific Study of Religion (2005), Elizabeth McAlister
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Journal of Africana Religions (2014), Elizabeth McAlister
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Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, and the Haiti Earthquake
Small Axe (2012), Elizabeth McAlister
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Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies
Anthropological Quarterly (2012), Elizabeth McAlister
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Teaching September 11th
The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion: Bulletin (2001), Elizabeth McAlister
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Journal of Caribbean Studies (1993), Elizabeth McAlister
Chapters in Edited Volumes
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Necroscape and Diaspora: Making Ancestors in Haitian Vodou
Spirit Service:Vodun and Vodou in the African Atlantic World. (2022), Elizabeth McAlister
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Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities in Haiti
Spirit on the Move: Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora (2019), Elizabeth McAlister
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Possessing the Land for Jesus
Spirited Things: The Work of “Possession” in Afro-Atlantic Religions (2014), Elizabeth McAlister
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Sacred Waters of Haitian Vodou: The Pilgrimage of Sodo
Sacred Waters: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells. (2020), Elizabeth McAlister
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Religion in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Being Haitian, Becoming American
Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (2009), Elizabeth McAlister
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The Jew in the Haitian Imagination: A Popular History of Anti-Judaism and Proto-Racism
Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (2004), Elizabeth McAlister
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Love, Sex, and Gender Embodied: The Spirits of Hatian Vodou
Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (2009), Elizabeth McAlister
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A Sorcerer’s Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995), Elizabeth McAlister
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Je nan Je: Haitian Visual Epistemologies
Ghetto Biannale/Geto Byanal 2009-2015, Elizabeth McAlister
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Listening for Geographies: Music as Sonic Compass Pointing Towards African and Christian Diasporic Horizons in the Caribbean
Black Music Research Journal (2012), Elizabeth McAlister
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From the Rubble to the Telethon: Music, Religion, and the Haiti Quake
Spirited Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare
Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (2009), Elizabeth McAlister
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The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou
Religions of the United States in Practice (2001), Elizabeth McAlister
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The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism
Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (1998), Elizabeth McAlister
Popular Press
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Haiti and the Distortion of its Vodou Religion
CNN.com (2017), Elizabeth McAlister, Millery Polyné
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Perspectives on Haiti’s Earthquake
New York Times (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Vodou’s View of the Quake
Washington Post (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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The Lucky Ones
Division II Faculty Publications (2000), Elizabeth McAlister
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National Public Radio (1996), Elizabeth McAlister
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They’re praying for the worst. Is that wrong?
Los Angeles Times (2014), Elizabeth McAlister
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Why does Haiti suffer so much?
CNN.com (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Devil’s Logic: Behind Pat Robertson’s Haitian Blame Game
Forbes.com (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Roundtable: Haitian Music (Part 2) “What Does Revolution Sound Like?”
The New Yorker (2009), Elizabeth McAlister
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Serving the Spirit Across Two Seas: Vodou Culture in New York and Haiti
Aperture (1992), Elizabeth McAlister
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Foreign Policy (2011), Elizabeth McAlister
Online Scholarly Venues
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The Immanent Frame, Social Science Research Council Blog (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Rara Festivals in New York and Haiti
Wesleyan University (2016), Elizabeth McAlister
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E-Misferica (2010), Elizabeth McAlister, Lovely Nicolas
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Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs
(2009), Elizabeth McAlister
Radio and Podcasts
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NPR Throughline (2019), Elizabeth McAlister
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Pulse of the Planet (2022), Elizabeth McAlister
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A Crisis of Faith and Meaning: Understanding the Haiti Earthquake
Wesleyan Interfaith Voices (2010), Elizabeth McAlister
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Afropop Worldwide (2007), Elizabeth McAlister
Articles in French and Italian
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Bulletin du Bureau National d’Ethnologie (2014), Elizabeth McAlister
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Amour, sexe et genre incarnés : les esprits du vaudou haïtien
Africultures (2004), Elizabeth McAlister
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En Haiti, la musique prend le pouvoir
Slate Afrique (2011), Elizabeth McAlister
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Voyage autour d’une bouteille de sorcier
Vaudou (2003), Elizabeth McAlister