Elizabeth McAlister. Paper McAlister, p. New York: Monthly Review Press. However, the steady arrival of waves of American Protestant and Pentecostal missionaries in Haiti for the past thirty years has been shuffling the deck. Instead of simply introducing their god to the Haitians, their missions reveal to condemn Roman Catholicism as corrupted by Vodou, and to demonize the latter, equating the Afro-Haitian religion with a satanic cult.
On others, they close ranks to fight an intra-Christian or even intra-Pentecostal battle. Melvin Butler. As it is often the case with tragedies, the earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, , boosted proselytism.
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