Stange altars
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
Published: 1952
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
Table of contents: title: Marcus Bach, a researcher in primitive and exotic religions, and his photographer-wife, Lorena, arrive in Haiti. Their purpose is to penetrate a religion which has been forbidden to white men - the ancient rite of Voodoo.; title: Strangely, a white man is their guide. Stanley Reser, an enigmatic American doctor, is rumored to be a Voodoo priest; on his arm flickers a tattooed red dragon. The three watch the mambos chant their prayers to the snake god Damballa; dance their homage to the pulsation of jungle drums; draw their sacred symbols on the beaten earth. The faithful walk through flames, possessed by the spirits of the loas, the immortal Voodoo saints.; title: Here where the supernatural prevails, Bach discovers a dynamic Christianity, the deep-felt religion of those who worship at STRANGE ALTARS