Caribbean religious history : an introduction / Ennis B. Edmonds and Michelle A. Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmonds, Ennis Barrington.

Contributor:

Gonzalez, Michelle A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean Area--Religion.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

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

Pentecostal and Evangelical churches

PuertoRico

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-256) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780814722848

0814722849

9780814722503

0814722504

OCLC:

779828059