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The Louisiana VooDoo are a professional arena football team based in Lafayette, Louisiana. They are members of the Arena Football League and will play their home games at Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette starting in 2024. This team is the latest incarnation formerly known as the New Orleans VooDoo with the original and second incarnations being ...
Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo, is an African diasporic religion that originated in Louisiana. It arose through a process of syncretism between the traditional religions of West Africa, the Roman Catholic form of Christianity, and Haitian Vodou.
Synonymous with New Orleans, voodoo first came to Louisiana with enslaved West Africans, who merged their religious rituals and practices with those of the local Catholic population. New Orleans Voodoo is also known as Voodoo-Catholicism. It is a religion connected to nature, spirits, and ancestors.
Voodoo came to New Orleans in the early 1700s, through slaves brought from Africa’s western “slave coast.” Like so many things New Orleans, Voodoo was then infused with the city’s dominant religion, Catholicism, and became a Voodoo-Catholicism hybrid sometimes referred to as New Orleans Voodoo.
LOUISIANA VOODOO. Embedded in New Orleans Culture. THE ORIGINS OF LOUISIANA VOODOO. Origins and Early Practioners. New Orleans Voodoo was born from the marriage of African Traditions and Creole Culture, merging French, Spanish, Catholic and Native beliefs, and later, a strong Haitian influence.
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