Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity: A Reader in the Anglophone Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9781138985025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 436 str.

J.W. Pulis

Opis

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 creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing and open-ended relation between local and global, historical and contemporary change.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Religion, Diaspora, and Cultural Identity, John W. Pulis; Chapter 2 Religion in the Anglophone Caribbean, Robert J. Stewart; Part 1 Abroad; Introduction to Part I, Kenneth Bilby; Chapter 3 West Indian American Day, Philip W. Scher; Chapter 4 Cultural Encounters in the Diaspora, Ineke van Wetering; Chapter 5 Movements of Jah People, John P. Homiak; Chapter 6 Spiritual Baptists in New York City, Wallace W. Zane; Chapter 7 Only Visitors Here, Carole D. Yawney; Part 2 Home; Introduction to Part II, Carole D. Yawney; Chapter 8 Blasphemy, Sacrilege, and Moral Degradation in the Trinidad Carnival, Garth L. Green; Chapter 9 Pentecostal Community and Jamaican Hierarchy, Diane J. Austin-Broos; Chapter 10 On the “Right Path”, Aisha Khan; Chapter 11 The Noise of Astonishment, Stephen D. Glazier; Chapter 12 Chaos, Compromise, and Transformation in the Orisha Religion in Trinidad, James Houk Ph.D.; Chapter 13 Neither Here Nor There, Kenneth Bilby; Chapter 14 Between the Living and the Dead, Barry Chevannes; Chapter 15 “Citing[Sighting]-Up”, John W. Pulis; Chapter 16 Afterword/Echoes, Richard Price;

O autorze

John W. Pulis Adelphi University Garden City, New York, USA. John F. Szwed, Richard Price.