VOODOO CONTRA
Robert Gover
York Beach ME. 1985. Samuel Weiser Inc., 1985. softvover.
How did an African word meaning God get translated into the Western world as meaning the opposite of all things holy and divine? In pursuit of the gods of the "old religion," Robert Gover must first learn where to look~ "in here" rather than "out there." His search takes him from an African community in South Carolina to Trinidad and Bahia, the nerve center of Voodoo in Brazil. Along the way he learns how to prepare himself by fasting, how to make friends with his astral soul, how to share life with a ghost, and how to assess the real meaning of possession.
