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Trance and modernity in the southern Caribbean : African and Hindu popular religions in Trinidad and Tobago / Keith E. McNeal.
Van Pelt Library BL2566.T7 M36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeal, Keith E.
- Series:
- New World diasporas series
- New World diasporas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindus.
- Religion.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Trinidad and Tobago--Religion.
- Trinidad and Tobago.
- Yoruba (African people)--Trinidad and Tobago--Religion.
- Hindus--Trinidad and Tobago--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
- Summary:
- This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of religion in the Caribbean by analyzing the ways ecstatic forms of worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship, have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the context of modernity.
- Showing bow diasporic traditions of West African Orisha worship and South Asian Shakti Puja converged in their ritual adaptations to colonialism in the West Indies, as well as how they diverged politically within the context of postcolonial multiculturalism, Keith McNeal reveals the unexpected ways these traditions of trance performance have become both globalized and modernized.
- The first book-length work to compare and contrast Afro and Indo-Caribbean materials in a systematic and multidimensional manner, this volume makes fresh and innovative contributions to anthropology, religious studies, and the historiography of modernity. By giving both religious subcultures and their intersections equal attention, McNeal offers a richly textured account of southern Caribbean cultural history and pursues important questions about the history and future of religion. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- l Catching Power, Playing Deep 15
- 2 Hierarchy and Heterodoxy in a Maze of Color 46
- 3 Serving the Orishas 90
- 4 Doing the Mother's Work 148
- 5 Sides and Paths: Spirits and Transculturation in the Southern Caribbean 205
- 6 Religion and the Politics of Diaspora in an Era of Postcolonial Multiculturalism 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813037363
- 0813037360
- OCLC:
- 709674062
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