Haitian Communities & Christianity in The Bahamas
Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky) will lecture on the development of religious habitus through embodied worship at a Haitian Protestant church. There, stateless Bahamian-born people of Haitian descent worship within a Black, Christian and anti-Haitian Bahamas. Adherent use of Haitian Protestant hymnody, liturgical dance and prayer reflects social processes of individual and collective self-remaking through embodied and linguistic practices.