Chasing Religion in the Caribbean: Ethnographic Journeys from Antigua to Trinidad

ISBN-13: 9781349934218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 242 str.

Peter Marina;Stephen C. Glazier;Stephen Glazier

Opis

Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in shaping the future in the English-speaking Caribbean. The large and explosive global Charismatic movement spread in powerful ways in the small and tranquil English-speaking Caribbean. It is here in the deep Caribbean world of demonic possessions, spiritual demons, and supernatural healers where the Charismatic movement continues to shape a resilient culture. Placing the Charismatic movement in the realm of culture provides some highly surprising findings that reveal the potential of a religious movement and its ability for change in a late-modern social world.

Recenzje

"The book to be accessible to those interested in investigation and analysis over method. ... What Marina does bring is essential ethnographic insight into Pentecostalism in the English-speaking Caribbean ... . He gives voice to bishops, apostles, and pastors as they articulate their challenges and successes in this under-researched region." (Marcia Clarke, Pneuma, Vol. 39 (3), 2017) 

Spis treści

Foreword

Chapter One: Spiritual Rumblings in the Caribbean

Chapter Two: The Study of Charismatic Christianity in the English-Speaking Caribbean

Chapter Three: Charismatic Ethnography in the Charismatic Caribbean 

Chapter Four: Antigua

Chapter Five: Trinidad

Chapter Six: St. Lucia, Barbados, and Dominica

Chapter Seven: St. Kitts and Montserrat

Chapter Eight: Summary and Final Thoughts

Epilogue: Haiti

O autorze

Peter Marina is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA. His research specializes in sociology of religion, transgressive sociology, urban ethnography, criminology, Hispanic immigration, and city life, among other topics.  

Stephen D. Glazier contributed the foreword. He is Graduate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions (2001) and a founding member of the editorial board of the journal PentecoStudies.