Materialities of Religion: Spiritual Traditions of the Colonial and Post-Colonial Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9781138494824 / Angielski

Niall Finneran; Christina Welch

Opis

This offers an overview of the material expressions of Caribbean religious expressions, including those that have been imported through the vehicle of colonialism, and which changed and adapted within the Caribbean islands and those religious expressions which developed through the contact of African, indigenous and imported world views.

Spis treści

1.Introduction; 2. The context of Caribbean religious expression; 3. Method and theory in the study of the materiality of Caribbean religion; 4. Christianity, colonialism and the Caribbean; 5. The Jewish and Islamic Caribbean, and recent religious introductions; 6. African-Caribbean creolised religious traditions of the Greater Antilles; 7. African-Caribbean creolised religious traditions of Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean; 8. Caribbean spirituality in the 21st century: A material consideration

O autorze

Niall Finneran is Professor of historical archaeology and heritage studies at the University of Winchester. His PhD was in African archaeology from the University of Cambridge, and he has also been working in the Caribbean for over twenty years, mainly in the Windward Islands. He has written extensively on material culture, religious identity and community heritage.

Christina Welch is a Reader in religious studies at the University of Winchester. Her PhD research focused on the spiritual appropriation of North American Indian identities. Since then, she has developed internationally significant research expertise around death studies, Caribbean indigenous knowledge systems and plant use, and community heritage. Christina is neurodivergent.