To witness the US Gov's ability to break promises in trade & add to the misery in this region watch:  The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss - A WLRN Original Production

Triangulation of counterpoints in this documentary are disquietingly illustrative:  Fair-skinned replacement Iowa pigs. . . USA Feed supplies & pig farm corralling & husbandry demands. . .  and VOODOO.

What happens when the boundaries between religion and other institutional spheres such as politics, economy, education, care, and the arts are revisited? 

This question calls for renewed attention to the public sphere, stretching from the prominent presence of religion in contemporary politics to the public significance of individual faith among younger generations.

In an upcoming talk I'll explore how:

Agency and the Metaphysics of Change Agency can be resolved into

(Sometimes it takes a Well-timed Thwack to Open Up a Crack)

As observed in the symbolic of Homo Irrational and the Triad of Icon/Idol, Totem & Fetish, these forms of personified symbols anchor the nature of reality in certain attributes and belief of mind (to reveal an exquisitely balanced Archimedean fulcrum) for scoping out the blurring lines that remain to demarcate the mundane of civic politics and the sacredness of religion. . .The Creole Pig will play a part in my presentation @ the '25 ESA Sociology of Religion Conf. -- Liquid Presence of Religion in the Public Sphere.

"I am the Creole pig I am who I am I am the pig of your ancestors There is no other pig but me the Creole pig Black Apocalyptic.  A pig from the new world whose blood washed the slaves of their sins whose flesh is your flesh up to the end of time." -- The Gospel of the Creole Pig