Ron Bodin
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Description
Serving as editor of the Attakapas Gazette and asst admin of the Center for Lousiana Studies, Ron penned this scholarly look at the voodoo/hoodoo experience in Louisiana.
Books
Voodoo, Past and Present
A very general book about the history and folklore behind voodoo and how it has adapted and changed over time to become what it is known as today by the general public.
The Catholic Woman as Deacon of the Sacraments, Priestess of the Sacramentals
I wrote this while at the USL Center for La. Studies. The piece studies two rural communities not served by fulltime Catholic priests until the 1930s. With the absence of clergy, informants from both Meaux and Henry describe the role of women in preserving the sacraments (la messe blanche) and the sacramentals. The bishop of Havana credits women in Louisiana for preserving the faith in those days in the diocese known as the wet swamp.