{"product_id":"my-soul-is-in-haiti-9781479841660","title":"My Soul Is in Haiti","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffers a greater understanding of the spread of Protestant Christianity, both regionally and globally, by studying local transformations in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Haitian diaspora, as in Haiti itself, the majority of\u003cbr\u003eHaitians have long practiced Catholicism or Vodou. However, Protestant forms of\u003cbr\u003eChristianity now flourish both in Haiti and beyond. In the Bahamas, where\u003cbr\u003eapproximately one in five people are now Haitian-born or Haitian-descended,\u003cbr\u003eProtestantism has become the majority religion for immigrant Haitians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn My Soul Is in Haiti, Bertin M. Louis, Jr. has\u003cbr\u003ecombined multi-sited ethnographic research in the United States, Haiti, and the\u003cbr\u003eBahamas with a transnational framework to analyze why Protestantism has\u003cbr\u003eappealed to the Haitian diaspora community in the Bahamas. The volume\u003cbr\u003eillustrates how devout Haitian Protestant migrants use their religious\u003cbr\u003eidentities to ground themselves in a place that is hostile to them as migrants,\u003cbr\u003eand it also uncovers how their religious faith ties in to their belief in the\u003cbr\u003eneed to “save” their homeland, as they re-imagine Haiti politically and morally\u003cbr\u003eas a Protestant Christian nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important look at transnational migration between\u003cbr\u003esecond and third world countries shows how notions of nationalism among Haitian\u003cbr\u003emigrants in the Bahamas are filtered through their religious beliefs. By\u003cbr\u003estudying local transformations in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas, Louis\u003cbr\u003eoffers a greater understanding of the spread of Protestant Christianity, both\u003cbr\u003eregionally and globally.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bertin M. Louis, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273439129851,"sku":"9781479841660","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_512d60e1-f0bd-4d5f-b0de-9845273bac95.jpg?v=1777609835","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/my-soul-is-in-haiti-9781479841660","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}