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Vodun

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[voh-duhn] / voʊˈdʌn /

noun

  1. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly in coastal West Africa, the practice of which includes worship of spirits tied to the natural world or embodied in fetish objects of worship, and a belief that ancestral spirits share the physical world along with the living.


Etymology

Origin of Vodun

First recorded in 1935–40; from Haitian Creole Voodoo

Example Sentences

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Six months after getting her citizenship, Ciara returned to Benin in January to play at the Vodun Days festival.

From BBC

Here, prophecy is protection, and though it is never named as such, the Dahomey religious practice of Vodun is a guide for Davis’s character, General Nanisca, as she prepares to take on enemies, foreign and domestic, and confront her own demons.

From New York Times

His art draws on his Afro-Dominican American identity, as well as on a religious upbringing that incorporated Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity, Vodun, Santeria and Afro-Caribbean spiritual practices.

From New York Times

One thing that mingled distinctively in the Caribbean is religion, yielding such African-European hybrids as Vodun, Santeria and Rastafari.

From Washington Post

A few months later, a Vodun priest from Benin visited the New Seminary in New York, where Speights serves as executive director.

From Washington Post