Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 269 p)
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Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814722342
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0814722350
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9780814722343
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9780814722350
Inhalt:
The colonial history of the Caribbean created a context in which many religions, from indigenous to African-based to Christian, intermingled with one another, creating a rich diversity of religious life. Caribbean Religious History offers the first comprehensive religious history of the region. Ennis B. Edmonds and Michelle A. Gonzalez begin their exploration with the religious traditions of the Amerindians who flourished prior to contact with European colonizers, then detail the transplantation of Catholic and Protestant Christianity and their centuries of struggles to become integral to the
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-256) and index
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IntroductionCaribbean crossroads : historical and theoretical considerations -- A brief profile of the Caribbean -- Theoretical perspectives on religions in the caribbean -- Amerindians and Spanish Catholics in contact -- The origins and way of life of indigenous Caribbean people -- Amerindian economy and social structure -- Amerindian religious beliefs and practices -- Catastrophic contact and extermination -- Settlement and subjugation -- The church and conversion of protection the Amerindians -- Early colonial Catholicism -- Spanish Catholicism -- Caribbean Catholicism -- Patronal festivals -- Cofradas and cabildos -- The institutional church -- Marian devotion in the Caribbean -- Specific Catholic contexts -- Cuba -- Dominican Republic -- Haiti -- For God and nation : Protestantism in the colonial Caribbean -- Challenge to Spanish monopoly -- Christianity in the Dutch Caribbean -- Church of England in the British Caribbean -- The nonconformist challenge to Anglican dominance -- Christianity and emancipation -- Emancipation and disestablishment -- Creole African traditions : Santera, Palo Monte, Abaka, vodou, and espiritismo -- Santera -- Cosmology and ceremonies of Santera -- Social history of Santera -- Palo Monte -- Abaka -- Vodou and the struggle for survival -- Espiritismo -- Afro-Christian faiths -- Revival zion and spiritual Baptists -- Revival zion -- Obeah and Myal -- Myal and the native Baptist movement -- Kumina and the Myal ethos -- The great revival and revival zion -- Alexander Bedward, Pentecostalism, and revivalism in the 1900s -- Afro-Trinidadian religions -- The Orisha tradition of Trinidad -- Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad -- Mainline and sideline : post-independence mainline -- Protestantism and Pentecostalism -- A Catholic prelude to Protestantism -- The arrival of Protestants in the Spanish Catholic caribbean -- Puerto Rico -- Dominican Republic -- Haiti -- Cuba -- Pentecostal and Evangelical churches -- PuertoRico -- Dominican Republic -- Cuba -- Haiti -- Jamaica -- Migration and revitalization : Hinduism, Islam, and Rastafarianism -- Hinduism -- Islam -- Rastafarianism -- Conclusion: Legitimation, indigenization, and contextualization -- Institutionalization -- Caribbean theology -- Music, arts, and liturgy -- New religious movements -- Gender -- Caribbean religions in the United States.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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ISBN 9780814722503
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780814722343
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Caribbean Religious History : An Introduction
Sprache:
Englisch
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