{"product_id":"my-soul-is-in-haiti-3","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\nIn the Haitian diaspora, as in Haiti itself, the majority of\u003cbr\u003e\nHaitians have long practiced Catholicism or Vodou. However, Protestant forms of\u003cbr\u003e\nChristianity now flourish both in Haiti and beyond. In the Bahamas, where\u003cbr\u003e\napproximately one in five people are now Haitian-born or Haitian-descended,\u003cbr\u003e\nProtestantism has become the majority religion for immigrant Haitians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn My Soul Is in Haiti, Bertin M. Louis, Jr. has\u003cbr\u003e\ncombined multi-sited ethnographic research in the United States, Haiti, and the\u003cbr\u003e\nBahamas with a transnational framework to analyze why Protestantism has\u003cbr\u003e\nappealed to the Haitian diaspora community in the Bahamas. The volume\u003cbr\u003e\nillustrates how devout Haitian Protestant migrants use their religious\u003cbr\u003e\nidentities to ground themselves in a place that is hostile to them as migrants,\u003cbr\u003e\nand it also uncovers how their religious faith ties in to their belief in the\u003cbr\u003e\nneed to “save” their homeland, as they re-imagine Haiti politically and morally\u003cbr\u003e\nas a Protestant Christian nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThis important look at transnational migration between\u003cbr\u003e\nsecond and third world countries shows how notions of nationalism among Haitian\u003cbr\u003e\nmigrants in the Bahamas are filtered through their religious beliefs. By\u003cbr\u003e\nstudying local transformations in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas, Louis\u003cbr\u003e\noffers a greater understanding of the spread of Protestant Christianity, both\u003cbr\u003e\nregionally and globally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Bertin M. Louis, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573549957302,"sku":"9781479887002","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781479887002.jpg?v=1712138905","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/my-soul-is-in-haiti-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}