UID:
almahu_9949086498102882
Format:
x, 269 p. :
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ill.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Note:
Introduction -- Caribbean 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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
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