Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean [electronic resource] : African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago /
McNeal, Keith E.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-369) and index.
Prologue : ecstasy -- Catching power, playing deep -- Hierarchy and heterodoxy in a maze of color -- Serving the Orishas -- Doing the Mother's work -- Sides and paths : spirits and transculturation in the southern Caribbean -- Religion and the politics of diaspora in the era of postcolonial multiculturalism -- Epilogue : ecstasy in exile.
Description based on print version record.
Popular culture
Hindus
Yoruba (African people)
Trance