1960
1960: Laënnec Hurbon attempted to interpret Voodoo as the principal means through which the Haitian peasant had preserved an authentic African identity.
1960: Laënnec Hurbon attempted to interpret Voodoo as the principal means through which the Haitian peasant had preserved an authentic African identity. He argued that Christians must learn to respect the beliefs and practices of the cult as they do other higher world religions.
Source · p. 228
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 228