Trance and modernity in the southern Caribbean
Subtitle: African and Hindu popular religions in Trinidad and Tobago
By: Keith E. McNeal
Series: New World diasporas; New World diasporas series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780813037363
Subjects: Yoruba (African people); Religion; Hindus; Trance; Popular culture; Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : ecstasy; title: Catching power, playing deep; title: Hierarchy and heterodoxy in a maze of color; title: Serving the Orishas; title: Doing the Mother's work; title: Sides and paths : spirits and transculturation in the southern Caribbean; title: Religion and the politics of diaspora in the era of postcolonial multiculturalism; title: Epilogue : ecstasy in exile.