The Vodou Ethic And The Spirit Of Communism

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The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : UPA
ISBN 13 : 0761867031
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by UPA. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit of social justice, xenophilia, balance, harmony, and gentleness, gave rise, under the leadership of oungan yo, manbo yo, gangan yo, and granmoun yo, to the Haitian spirit of communism and the “counter-plantation system” (Jean Casimir’s term) in the provinces and mountains of Haiti. What Mocombe calls the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism of the African people of Haiti would be juxtaposed against the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of the white, mulatto, gens de couleur, and petit-bourgeois free black classes of the island. This latter worldview, the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism, Mocombe goes on to argue, exercised by the free bourgeois blacks and mulatto elites, Affranchis, on the island undermined the revolutionary and independence movement of Haiti commenced by subjects/agents, oungan yo, manbo yo, gangan yo/dokté fey, and granmoun yo, of the Vodou ethic and the spirit of communism, and made it the poorest, most racist, and tyrannical country in the Western Hemisphere.

Identity and Ideology in Haiti

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429017510
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Ideology in Haiti written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of Pétion v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally viewed within racial terms – the mulatto elites v. the African (black) poor majority – Mocombe suggests that the metaphor, contemporarily, as utilized by the educated black grandon class (middle-class bourgeois blacks) has come to represent Marxist categories for racial-class (nationalistic) struggles on the island of Haiti within the capitalist world-system under American hegemony. The ideological position of Pétion represents the neoliberal views of the mulatto/Arab elites and petit-bourgeois blacks; and nationalism, economic reform, and social justice represent the ideological and nationalistic positions of Dessalines as articulated by the grandon, actual children of Toussaint Louverture, seeking to speak for the African majority (the children of Sans Souci, the Congolese-born general of the Haitian Revolution) whose practical consciousness, the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism, differ from both the children of Dessalines and Pétion. In the final analysis, the moniker is a truncated understanding of Haitian identity constitution, ideologies, and their oppositions.

Haitian Epistemology

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527536343
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Haitian Epistemology written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the philosophical basis for the author’s theory of phenomenological structuralism. The text is intended for scholars, educators, and students working in the fields of Haitian studies, philosophy, and sociological theory, and gives a hermeneutical approach to understanding and resolving the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences.

Between Two Worlds

Author : Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498545769
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars’s thought is also significant for the renewed scholarly interests in Haiti and Haitian Studies in North America, and the meaning of contemporary Africa in the world today. This volume explores various dimensions in Price-Mars’ thought and his role as historian, anthropologist, cultural critic, public intellectual, religious scholar, pan-Africanist, and humanist. The goal of this book is fourfold: it explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture, it studies Price-Mars’ engagement with Western history and the problem of the “racist narrative,” it interprets Price-Mars’ connections with Black Internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude Movement, and finally, the book underscores Price-Mars’ contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana Studies, and Pan-Africanism.

The Theory of Phenomenological Structuralism

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527529355
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Phenomenological Structuralism written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory. Through its analysis and critique of structurationist sociology, the underlying tenets of this problematic of the social sciences are outlined. The text goes on to synthesize Haitian and Vilokan idealism, phenomenology, Althusserian structural Marxism, quantum mechanics, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of language games in order to offer an alternative reading of the structure/agency problematic, which holds onto the notions of structure, duality, dualism, and the individual’s rational ability to choose to account for the constitution of the individual and society in the resource framework of the earth.

Capitalism, Lakouism, and Libertarian Communism

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152754687X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Capitalism, Lakouism, and Libertarian Communism by : Paul C. Mocombe

Download or read book Capitalism, Lakouism, and Libertarian Communism written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work highlights the Haitian sociopolitical economic organization, Lakous. It posits that the Lakou is a form of libertarian communism that must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level so that the people can experience total freedom from neoliberal capitalist relations of production and their deleterious effects, such as exploitation and climate change.

Neoliberal Globalization

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527586634
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberal Globalization written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work uses the theory of phenomenological structuralism to put forth the argument that neoliberal globalization represents a Durkheimian mechanicalization of the world via the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism under American hegemony. It concludes that America attempts to “enframe” nation-states around the latter form of social integration via the systemicity of the dollar backed by the world’s commodities, which it privatizes. Amidst reactionary nationalism and fascism, which emerges to protect the citizenry of the world from the exploitative effects of the whole process, climate change threatens the American globalist project.

Identity and Ideology in the Haitian U.S. Diaspora

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527552217
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Ideology in the Haitian U.S. Diaspora written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work puts forth the argument that, in the Haitian diaspora in the USA, a new Haitian identity has emerged among the youth, which is tied to the practical consciousness of the black American underclass. Black Americans in the postindustrial capitalist world-system of America are no longer Africans. Instead, their practical consciousnesses are the product of two identities: the black bourgeoisie, or African Americans, on the one hand, under the leadership of educated professionals and preachers, and the black underclass, on the other hand, under the leadership of street and prison personalities, athletes, and entertainers vying for ideological and linguistic domination of black America. These two social class language games were, and still are, historically constituted by structural differentiation and different ideological apparatuses, the church and education on the one hand and the streets, prisons, and the athletic and entertainment industries on the other, of the global capitalist racial-class structure of inequality under American hegemony, which replaced the African ideological apparatuses of Vodou, peristyles, lakous, and agricultural production as found in Haiti, for example. Among Haitian youth in the US after 1986, following the topple of Jean-Claude “baby doc” Duvalier, the latter social class language game, the black American underclass, came to serve as the bearer of ideological and linguistic domination against Haitian bourgeois purposive-rationality, and agents of the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism.

Mind, Body, and Consciousness in Society

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524019
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Mind, Body, and Consciousness in Society written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of learning and development in the philosophy of phenomenological structuralism, which represents an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory. Through the analysis and critique of structurationist sociology, the book outlines the underlying tenets of this problematic. It goes on to synthesize Haitian ontology and epistemology, phenomenology, Althusserian structural Marxism, quantum mechanics, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of language games. As such, it offers an alternative reading of the structure/agency problematic, which holds on to the notions of structure, duality, dualism, and the individual’s rational ability to choose to account for the constitution of the individual and society in, and as, the resource framework of the earth. In the final analysis, the study outlines the implications for this social ontology in the domain of learning and development. It utilizes two case studies, black America and Haiti, to highlight its conclusions that learning and development in this phenomenological structuralism are both Vygotskyian and Chomskyian. A synopsis of the book by Paul can be seen here: https://youtu.be/2A_OCxQeUW4

The Black/White Academic Achievement Gap and Mocombe's Reading Room Series Curriculum

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559165
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Black/White Academic Achievement Gap and Mocombe's Reading Room Series Curriculum written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the concept of structural reproduction and differentiation through the origins of, and basis for, Paul C. Mocombe’s Mocombeian Strategy (2005) and Reading Room Curriculum, published as Mocombe’s Reading Room Series (2007). It highlights how black American practical consciousness and the academic achievement gap are a product of capitalist forces, relations of production, and their ideological apparatuses. As such, it is argued here that, to resolve the gap, black Americans should be treated as immigrant students against their structurally differentiated identities.

The Essence of Academic Performance

Author : Bernard Nchindila
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789848547
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Academic Performance written by Bernard Nchindila and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of research on academic performance. Chapters cover such topics as targeting underserved urban youth, education and science, community-based projects, pedagogy, and developing educational programs, among others. Written by experts, this book offers a comprehensive view of recent developments in the field of academic performance.

Black Assimilationism in Neoliberal Globalization

Author : Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 103640255X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Assimilationism in Neoliberal Globalization by : Paul C. Mocombe

Download or read book Black Assimilationism in Neoliberal Globalization written by Paul C. Mocombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work highlights the Black American community’s transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to an intersectional one, a model which dominates the contemporary global order. The work posits that the constitution of Black American communities and their identities have been the product of their relations to the means and mode of production within the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Contemporarily, their integration is marked by their transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to a neoliberal intersectional one dominated by their youth, athletes, women, and queer members. Their images and practices, especially those of the working class, overrepresented in the media industrial complex, are then used instruments of capitalism, i.e., rentier oligarchs, to assimilate other Black people into the structure and processes of the neoliberal global order under American hegemony in order to generate surplus value.

Looking for Other Worlds

Author : Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813948460
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Other Worlds written by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? Looking for Other Worlds engages with this question from a distinct feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles explores the "ethical imagination" of three contemporary Haitian authors—Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, and Evelyne Trouillot—contending that ethics and aesthetics operate in relation to each other through the writers’ respective novels and that the turn to ethics has proven essential in the twenty-first century. Jean-Charles presents a useful framework for analyzing contemporary literature that brings together Black feminism, literary ethics, and Haitian studies in a groundbreaking way.

Red Enlightenment

Author : Graham Jones
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1914420209
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Red Enlightenment written by Graham Jones and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one. The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx’s famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Yet forms of spirituality have motivated struggles throughout history, ranging from medieval peasant uprisings and colonial slave revolts, to South American liberation theology and the US civil rights movement. And in a world where religion is growing, and political movements are ridden with conflict, burnout, and failure, what can the left learn from religion? Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from socialist and scientific sources, finding points of contact with the global history of philosophy and religion. From cybernetics to liberation theology, from ancient Indian and Chinese philosophy to Marxist dialectical materialism, from traditional religious practices to contemporary art, music, and film, Red Enlightenment sets out a plausible secular spirituality, a new socialist praxis, and a utopian vision.

The Mandaean Book of John

Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110487861
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaean Book of John written by Charles G. Häberl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Working the Spirit

Author : Joseph M. Murphy
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807012215
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Working the Spirit written by Joseph M. Murphy and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1995-01-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An appreciative and user-friendly book on religion in the African diaspora. Murphy's skillfully drawn portraits offer an inviting introduction to the religious worlds of Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, Revival Zion, and the Black Church" – David W. Wills, Amherst College

Mama Lola

Author : Karen McCarthy Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520224759
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Mama Lola written by Karen McCarthy Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. "Mama Lola" shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family. 46 illustrations.