Crucial issues in Caribbean religions / Mozella G. Mitchell.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial studies in religion, culture, and social development ; vol. 10.
Main Author: Mitchell, Mozella G.
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial studies in religion, culture, and social development ; vol. 10.
Subjects:
Caribbean Area > Religion.
Physical Description:xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The encounter of religions in a new world
  • The indigenous inhabitants : Caribs and Arawaks (Tainos)
  • The encounter of the indigenous Caribbean
  • Inhabitants with the Spanish
  • The encounter with other Europeans and their religions
  • Entrance of the African peoples into the Caribbean and their religious influences and interactions
  • The interactions of Africans and indigenous
  • Arawaks and Caribs
  • Hindu and Islamic encounters and interactions in the Caribbean
  • The present setting of Caribbean religious interactions
  • Expansion of Protestant Christianity in the Caribbean
  • Africans appropriations of Christianity in the Caribbean
  • Problems in the encounters and interactions of Christianity with non-Christian religions and perspectives in the Caribbean
  • Challenges of non-Christian spirituality to Christian
  • Spirituality in the Caribbean
  • Syncretism and Christianity in the Caribbean
  • Adaptations and syncretic challenges of East Indian and other spiritualities in the Caribbean
  • Issues of religio-social and cultural manifestations
  • Found in Caribbean religions : Cuban Santeria and Haitian vodou, Brazilian candomblè and Trinidadian shango
  • Crucial issues in Cuban santeria and Haitian vodou
  • The process of syncretism in Cuban santeria
  • The process of syncretism in Haitian vodun
  • Syncretism as an issue in Caribbean religion
  • Candomblé and issues of class, race, gender, and ethnicity
  • Trinidadian shango and issues of class, race, gender, and ethnicity
  • Crucial issues in Obeah and Rastafari
  • Crucial issues of freedom and resistance to oppression, racism, ethnicity, and gender relations in Obeah/Myal
  • Crucial issues in Rastafari : religious, social, political, racial, gender relations
  • Crucial issues in Haitian vodou
  • Dance of the spirit
  • Issues of community, service, and devotion in vodou
  • Communalism : the expanded community
  • Commemoration and revivification in the face of hardships
  • Crucial issues in Cuban and Puerto Rican santeria and Trinidadian shango/orisa
  • Orisa religions in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad : the conquest culture syndrome
  • Issues of continuity and change, repression and resistance
  • Espiritismo in Cuba and Puerto Rico : racial, class, and ethnic issues
  • Impact of Afro-Cubanism on Cuban santeria
  • Africa's oshun in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and the multifarious image of la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre : (the virgin of charity of cobre)
  • Symbols of continuity and change in Caribbean religions
  • Crucial issues in Jamaican religions
  • Issues in native Baptist religion and revival cults of Pukkumina and revival zion
  • Crucial issues of resistance, religious and cultural identity, land, syncretism, political and social
  • Radicalism in Rastafari
  • Crucial issues reflected in the beliefs and practices and religious forms of Rasta
  • The moving of spirit a comparative vision
  • The maintenance of and the recovery and restoration of the self and the genuine religious experience
  • Spirituality beyond religion transcendence and universal religious vision in Caribbean religions.