Caribbean religious history an introduction
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...
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New York :
New York University Press
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
