Conclusion

This blog brings my anthropological research on Voodoo to an end for now. I am sure that after this class has finished, I will continue to look into the subject because I have always been interested in learning about religions that are foreign to me. When I started this blog, Voodoo was perhaps the most foreign religion to me. And as far as Voodoo went, that is all I knew it as: a religion.


I have come to realized that Voodoo is not just a religion, but the people who practice have formed a community, a culture. Through my research, I have been able to look past the stereotype that all Voodoo is knit with bad intentions. With such stereotypes come fear and stereotypes of people. If I had met someone who practiced Voodoo prior to my blog, I probably would have avoided them out of fear. I have come to realize that Voodoo does not make someone evil. They may have very different religious beliefs than I do, but they have no more right to be stereotyped than I do as a Christian.

Although I do not completely agree with the practices of the Voodoo religion, I now understand them a little better. I will never understand them as much as someone who actually practices them, but I feel that I understand them more for someone in my own position. As a Christian I see no problem with familiarized myself with a religion that is so different from mine that it is considered to be dangerous. However, I feel it can only be dangerous if you are ignorant of it. Even the Satan quotes God’s words straight from the bible.