ISBN:
9789057005459
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (649 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity : A Reader in the Anglophone Caribbean
DDC:
306.6/09729/0917521
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at home. Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research in a variety of contexts and settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious and social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1. Religion, Diaspora, and Cultural Identity: An Introduction; Endnotes; 2. Religion in the Anglophone Caribbean: Historical Overview; Introduction; Carib and Taino Religion; European Churches and Missions; Traditional African Religion; Conflicting Worldviews; European Christianity and Slave Society; Black Christianity; After Emancipation; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; I: Abroad; Introduction to Part I; Endnotes; References
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3. West Indian American Day: Becoming a Tile in the "Gorgeous Mosaic"Methodology; The Crown Heights Incident of 1991; Jews and West Indians in Crown Heights; The Carnival; Reconstructing Carnival in Brooklyn; Resource Competition and Ethnicity: Some Background; Culture and Ethnicity in West Indian Brooklyn; Stasis and Identity Politics; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; No Author: Newspapers and Magazines; 4. Cultural Encounters in the Diaspora: Suriname Creole Religion in the Netherlands; Transatlantic Migrants and Their Background; The Politics of Culture; The Multicultural Arena
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A Winti SeminarWinti Out of the Closet; Analysis; Ethnic Politics and the Curtailment of Syncretism; Postscript; Endnotes; References; 5. Movements of Jah People: From Soundscapes to Mediascape; Word-Sound-and-Power: Under the Tambrin Tree; Visionary Discourse and Deterritorialized Space; From Strength to Strength: Rastafari in Transition; Island/l-land Roots, Metropolitan Branches; Rooting/Routing the Mediascape: The Indigenization of Modernity; The Mobilized Gaze: From Vision to Videography; Conclusion; Endnotes; References
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6. Spiritual Baptists in New York City: A View from the Vincentian ConvertedIntroduction; The Converted in St. Vincent; Other Religions in St. Vincent; Converted in New York; Other Spiritual Baptists in New York; Other Caribbean Religions; American Influence; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 7. Only Visitors Here: Representing Rastafari into the 21st Century; The Globalization of Rastafari; Background; Researching Diasporas: Methodological Problems and Conceptual Considerations; Rastafari Focus 1986 and the Role of Rastafari Women; Weaving the Threads of Multisite Ethnography; Endnotes
Description / Table of Contents:
ReferencesII: Home; Introduction to Part II; 8. Blasphemy, Sacrilege, and Moral Degradation in the Trinidad Carnival: The Hallelujah Controversy of 1995; Introduction; Religion and the Carnival; Hallelujah As Blasphemy; Minshall's Response; Rhetorical Postures; Narrations of the Nation; Carnival as the National Festival; Spirituality and the Carnival; The Afro-Trinidadian Nationalist Perspective; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 9. Pentecostal Community and Jamaican Hierarchy; Introduction; Pentecostalism in Jamaica: An Overview; The Construction of Jamaica's Pentecostal World
Description / Table of Contents:
Healing in Jamaican Pentecostalism
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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