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Updated 5.26.03

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Informational pages

The Vodou page by Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen, is a very informative site with an abundance of helpful information.
http://www.geocities.com/ozziesdominicanvoodun/index.html - Voudou as it's practiced in the Dominican Republic
http://www.swagga.com/voodoo.htm - A good overview of Voudou
http://egallery.com/flags/ - A gallery of Haitian Voudou flags
Vodoun Culture - this site is a wealth of information, as well as having an almost most painfully comprehensive list of loas/lwas
http://www.religioustolerance.org/voodoo.htm - religioustolerance.org's site on Voudou.
http://www.hermetics.org/afro.html - a good site with information on both Voudou and Santeria
http://www.MamiWata.com/ - a site on West African Dahomean Vodoun

Online Groups and Discussion Groups

7AfricanPowers for those who are interested in learning or sharing knowledge about Afro-centric religions.
Carrefour
Santeria - discussion of the Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha
tristatevodou - This group is dedicated to the practice of Vodou in the NY/NJ/CT Tristate Area
The American Voodoo forum- Moderated by the folks at Houmfort d'Ogoun out in West Virginia
Voudou_UK - A yahoo group for those in the UK interested in Voudou.
Tristate Voodoo - A yahoo group 'dedicated to the practice of Vodou in the NY/NJ/CT Tristate Area.'

Books

(all book links go to amazon.com for no particular reason, although you should be able to find these books at the bookstore of your choice)

Vodou Visions: An Encounter With Divine Mystery - by Sallie Ann Glassman, is a great book on various loa offerings, their sacred days, veves, favorite
The Book of Vodou: Charms and Rituals to Empower Your Life - by Leah Gordonfoods, etc.
Voodoo: Search for the Spirit (Discoveries) - by Laennec Hurbon, Lory Frankel
Voodoo in Haiti - by Alfred Metraux, Hugo Charteris, Sidney W. Mintz
Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica - by Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael Reed
Secrets of Voodoo - by Milo Regaud
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti - by Maya Deren
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Updated and Expanded Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) - by Karen McCarthy Brown
Island Possessed - by Katherine Dunham, Katerine Dunham
Sacred Arts of Haitian Voodoo - by Donald Cosentino
Sacred Possessions: Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean - by Margarite Fernandez Olmos
Oya: In Praise of the Goddess - by Judith Gleason
 

Media

An article in the Miami Herald about Voodoo.
The Voodoo Server - Nandotimes' archives on Afro-Caribbean religions

Peristyles

http://www.vodou.org/ - The Temple of Yehwe is a Voudou based temple run by Max Beauvoir located in Plainview, New York.
Le peristyle Hatian Sanctuary - Gro Mambo Angélá Noványón idizol's peristyle located in Philadelphia, PA
Voodoo Spiritual Temple - Priestess Miriam's temple located in New Orleans

Online Botanicas

Botanica Santa Barbara Chango Tiembra Ba Congo
8743 Cooper Rd Alexandria
VA 22309-3906
703-780-1212

Santa Barbara Botanica (Santero Owned and Operated!)
403 South Lopez
New Orleans,LA.
[on the corner of Banks and Lopez]
504-821-8898
Santa Barbara will also stock Vodou,Hoodoo,Spiritist and Wiccan/Pagan wares in addition to having an Italero available for Dilogun readings.

Botanica Elegua in Houston Texas
Botanica Santa Barbara Chango Tiembra Ba Congo in Virginia
Botanica Yoruba in San Fransisco
Obiexu BotanicaBotanica Yemaya, in New York City
Botanica Oni Oni in Miami, FL (en espanol)
Island of Salvation Botanica in New Orleans - Owned by Mambo Sallie Ann Glassman, creator of the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot. They offer libation bottles and candles hand painted by Sallie herself.
La Botanica in Amsterdam

Santeria Links

Santeria (also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, Lukumi, Macumba, Candomble) is a syncretistic Caribbean religion. Some see it as a 'sister' path that compliments Voudou, and I've met many people that have both Voudou loa and Santeria orisha in their pantheon.
lucumi-online · Santeria La Religion Lucumi
http://www.religioustolerance.org/santeri.htm - religioustolerance.org's site on Santeria. Very informative.
OrishaNet - Dedicated to being an accurate source of information on La Regla Lucumí for those learning the religion and other interested parties.

Collegiate Source/Reference

This is essentially a collection of dispassionate links by people that have done educational research on both Haiti, Voodoo  and Santeria

Mary Ann Clark, a religious studies scholar, has a collection of her studies of Santeria online
http://sparta.rice.edu/~maryc/Santeria
Bob Corbett's reference site on Voodoo
Congress of Santa Barbara  - 'In April 1997, thirteen Haitian scholars assembled in a colloquium they had organized on Haitian Vodou at the University of California, Santa Barbara, agreed to organize a permanent scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou and its impact on Haitian society and the international community.
Calling on the Gods: The Embodied Aesthetic of Haitian Vodou
Hartford Web Publishing's World History Archives on Voodoo