Brandon R. Byrd

Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion

World Religions

“Spanning from colonial Saint Domingue to twenty-first-century Haiti, Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion re-examines the political and social thought of six influential Haitian thinkers, including Toussaint Louverture, Anténor Firmin, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In doing so, it provides an important reconsideration of Haitian intellectual history. As Joseph shows, Haitian thinkers have offered enduring theories of freedom, humanism, history, and social justice. They must be centered in any comprehensive intellectual history of the modern world.”