Hoodoo is an Ethnoreligion.

Is Hoodoo a Religion?

An ethnoreligious group is a community bound together by shared religious and ethnic heritage. This term, alongside ethno-regional and ethno-linguistic groups, falls under the category of ethnicity, serving as proof of a shared culture and lineage.

For some, Hoodoo is just name for their cultural practices.

For others, Hoodoo is the name of their religion.

For some, they do not gain an understanding of god, divinity, or order through Hoodoo. Hoodoo is how they understand their personal power and the interior of Black life.

For some others, they understand creator and creation through a theological interpretation that knows Hoodoo as their foundation (to some, that is a radical practice).

Some people blend those views, some people don't view Hoodoo in either way.

For some people, Hoodoo is just a way of life or an understanding of plant medicine.

For others, Hoodoo is a religion.

Hoodoo is a legitimate ethnic practice.

With all practices comes diverse points of view from it's practitioners.

We are not the only ethnicity with people who approach a shared system with different understandings and utilization.

Hoodoo is experiential, some will know it one way, some another.

If we do not dismiss the people who know and experience Hoodoo as a religion, it gives our collective a better footing to safeguard against religious and spiritual discrimination.

Be strategic when saying what Hoodoo is, and isn't.