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>> xiii Acknowledgments This book was a long time in the making and its realization relied heavily on the generous support and insights of many people in many places. Our gratitude is thus as far reaching as it is sincere, though most of it is grounded in, and springs from, Miami and Haiti. Above all, we thank the many Haitian and Haitian American believers, family members, and friends who have so kindly shared with us the depths and contours of their fascinating religious lives, and the priests, priestesses, bishops, pastors, prophets, prophetesses, preachers, and herbalists who have guided them and us along the way. We could not have even conceived of this project without the open arms that received us into a wide array of Haitian religious congregations, Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouists, which are far too many to name here. FortheirassistancewithourresearchinMiami,weareespeciallygrateful to Oungan Michelet Tibosse Alisma, Manbo Margaret Armand, Rev. Fritz Bazin, Fr. Patrick Charles, Rev. Jacques Clotaire, Rev. F. F. Duclair, Rev. François Duclair, Rev. Emmanuel Eugène, Rev. Jonas Georges, the late Monsignor Gérard Darbouze, Fr. Lesley Jean, Fr. Reginald JeanMary , Jose Antonio Lammoglia, Rev. Wilner Maxi, Manbo Danièle Mangones , Fr. Jean Pierre, Rev. Fandor Saint-Felix, Fr. Juan Sosa, Rev. Harold Vieux, Emile Villard, and Archbishop Thomas Wenski. In Haiti we were very fortunate to have been spoken to and been welcomed and guided by Br. Ameleon, Fr. Whistler Angrand, Fr. Emmanuel Charles, Fr. Gabriel Charles, Joel Jean-Baptiste, the late Fr. Gérard Jean-Juste, Ira Lowenthal, Yolette Mengual, the late Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, Francesca Pascal , Archbishop Guire Poulard, Mira Toussaint, and by a number of leaders in the National Haitian Protestant Pastors Association. Much of our research was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts as part of their Gateway Cities Initiative, and we gratefully acknowledge xiv << Acknowledgments this support and particularly that of our program officer at Pew, Kimon Sargeant. The Pew project also resulted in the book Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City, which we co-edited with the project’s other principal investigator, Sarah Mahler. Also affiliated with that project were postdoctoral fellows Katrin Hansing, Christine Ho, and Yves Labissiere. Graduate research assistants were Terry Tsuji, Aidil Oscariz, Isabel del Pino Allen, Su Fink, Eileen Smith-Cavros, Noemi Baez, and Ann Reeder Goraczko. We began this study of Haitian religion in Miami more than ten years ago while both of us were on the faculty at Florida International University . We enjoyed fruitful collaborations related to this book with a host of talented scholars there, especially Marvin Dunne, Deborah O’Neil, and Carol Dutton Stepick. Meanwhile, FIU’s Immigration and Ethnicity Institute and the university’s Center for Labor Research and Studies, where the institute is housed, provided the space for our Pew-funded research and many other resources that were essential to its success. We also owe a special word of thanks to several professional colleagues from other universities and institutes who are experts on Haitian religion , especially Dimitri Béchacq, Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique, Leslie Desmangles, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Laënnec Hurbon, Bertin Louis, Elizabeth McAlister, Karen McCarthy Brown, Margarita Mooney, and Karen Richman, who have so graciously shared their work and ideas with us over the years; Leslie and Margarita, in fact, along with two other anonymous reviewers, read the entirety of an earlier draft of our manuscript and provided invaluable feedback that made this a much better book. Many thanks also to Jason Martin for creating two of the book’s maps, to Jerry Berndt for contributing his magnificent photographs to this project, to Gayle Schooley for patient and priceless technical and logistical assistance, and to Serge Rey for helping us think spatially about our work. More recently, we have benefited in many ways from our wonderful collaborators at New York University Press, especially Mary Sutherland, Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, Constance Grady, and Jennifer Hammer, our most able editor, and we gratefully acknowledge their support, along with that of the editors of the series in which this book resides, Tracy Fessenden, Laura Levitt, and David Harrington Watt. Antouka mèsi anpil pou tout bèl soutyen ki te pèmèt liv sa realize! ...

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