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V体育平台登录 - Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction

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Ennis B. Edmonds, Michelle A. Gonzalez
2010
Published by: NYU Press
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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 VSports app下载. 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 Caribbean’s religious ethos, and trace the twentieth century penetration of American Evangelical Christianity, particularly in its Pentecostal and Holiness iterations. Caribbean Religious History also illuminates the influence of Africans and their descendants on the shaping of such religious traditions as Vodou, Santeria, Revival Zion, Spiritual Baptists, and Rastafari, and the success of Indian indentured laborers and their descendants in reconstituting Hindu and Islamic practices in their new environment. Paying careful attention to the region’s social and political history, Edmonds and Gonzalez present a one-volume panoramic introduction to this religiously vibrant part of the world.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page, Copyright Page (V体育ios版)

Contents

pp. vii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-11

1. Introduction : Caribbean Crossroads: Historical and Theoretical Considerations

pp. 1-14

2. Amerindians and Spanish Catholics in Contact

pp. 15-44

3. Early Colonial Catholicism (VSports app下载)

pp. 45-64

4. For God and Nation: Protestantism in the Colonial Caribbean

pp. 65-92

5. Creole African Traditions: Santer

pp. 93-120

6. Afro-Christian Faiths: Revival Zion and Spiritual Baptists

pp. 121-154

7. Mainline and Sideline: Post-Independence Mainline Protestantism and Pentecostalism

pp. 155-176

8. Migration and Revitalization: Hinduism, Islam, and Rastafarianism

pp. 177-202

V体育2025版 - 9. Legitimation, Indigenization, and Contextualization

pp. 203-220

Conclusion

pp. 221-222

Notes

pp. 223-244

"V体育官网入口" Bibliography

pp. 245-256

V体育平台登录 - Index

pp. 257-268

About the Authors (V体育2025版)

pp. 269
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