New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Elizabeth McAlister talks to Public Radio International about Haitian Vodou and one man’s struggle to protect it from the spread of Evangelicalism.

The old joke goes that Haiti is 70 percent Catholic, 30 percent Protestant and 100 percent Vodou.

For Josué, this is no joking matter. Last year, he took a government job as head of Haiti’s National Ethnology Office. He’s on a mission to get Haitians to realize that they need to embrace their vodou heritage — whether they agree or not.

Listen to the story here.