Abstract
Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami, written by Terry Rey & Alex Stepick
Highlights
This study of religious practices among Haitians and Haitian-Americans living in Miami or between Miami and Haiti is an indispensable contribution to contemporary Haitian Studies, and more generally, the sociology of religion
Rey and Stepick place their work at the heart of the debate between “the two streams of thought on religious capital, the European, which is dominated by the influence of [Max] Weber and [Pierre] Bourdieu, and the American, dominated by rational choice theory” (p. 156)
Little Haiti, where they have conducted most of their research is most certainly a “religious marketplace” (p. 186), one in which the currency is the promise that the seeker will be restituted the self-respect taken away by the complexly and overwhelmingly traumatic experience of immigration to the United States in the most dispossessing of circumstances
Summary
This study of religious practices among Haitians and Haitian-Americans living in Miami or between Miami and Haiti is an indispensable contribution to contemporary Haitian Studies, and more generally, the sociology of religion. Rey and Stepick place their work at the heart of the debate between “the two streams of thought on religious capital, the European, which is dominated by the influence of [Max] Weber and [Pierre] Bourdieu, and the American, dominated by rational choice theory”
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