Social Science and Public Policy
Religion and the Future of Haiti
March 4, 2022 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST
Sims Hall, 219 and Virtual (See event details)
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The African American Studies Department is excited to host Bertin M. Louis, Jr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies (AAAS) at the University of Kentucky.
His presentation draws on an ethnographic research conducted among Haitian Protestants in the Bahamas in 2005 and 2012 plus internet resources to document the belief among Haitian Protestants (Haitians who practice Protestant forms of Christianity) that Haiti supposedly made a pact with the Devil (Satan). He will argue that this belief is an extension of the negative effects of the globalization of American Fundamentalist Christianity in Haiti and, by extension, peoples of African descent and the Global South. He will also discuss how this belief affects the future of Haiti.
Please reach out to africain@syr.edu for Zoom link.
This event was first published on March 2, 2022 and last updated on March 3, 2022.
Event Details
- Category
- Social Science and Public Policy
- Type
- Talks
- Region
- Hybrid Campus and Virtual
- Open to
- Public
- Contact
- CAS-Department of African American Studies
aas@syr.edu
+1.315.443.4302
- Accessibility
- Contact CAS-Department of African American Studies to request accommodations