NeoHooDoo, a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality. In the "Neo-HooDoo Manifesto," which first appeared in the Los Angeles Free Press (September 18-24, 1970), then as part of his poetry book "Conjure" (1972), Reed devises a myth that divides history into a war between two churches, two communities of consciousness: the "Cop Religion" of Christianity and the transformed Osirian rite, Voodoo.
