Religion, diaspora and cultural identity
Subtitle: a reader in the Anglophone Caribbean
By: edited by John W. Pulis ; foreword by John F. Szwed ; afterword by Richard Price.
Contributors: Pulis, John W.
Series: Library of anthropology,; v. 14
Publisher: Gordon and Breach Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Religion and culture -- Caribbean Area.; Group identity -- Caribbean Area.; Caribbean Area -- Religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Religion, Diaspora, and Cultural Identity: An Introduction; title: John W. Pulis; title: 2 Religion in the Anglophone Caribbean: Historical Overview; title: Robert J. Stewart; title: I ABROAD; title: Introduction to Part I by Kenneth Bilby; title: 3 West Indian American Day: Becoming a Tile in the "Gorgeous Mosaic"; title: Philip W. Scher; title: 4 Cultural Encounters in the Diaspora: Suriname Creole Religion in the Netherlands; title: Ineke van Wetering; title: 5 Movements of Jah People: From Soundscapes to Mediascape; title: John P Homiak; title: 6 Spiritual Baptists in New York City: A View from the Vincentian Converted; title: Wallace W. Zane; title: 7 Only Visitors Here: Representing Rastafari into the 21st Century; title: Carole D. Yawney; title: II HOME; title: Introduction to Part II by Carole D. Yawney; title: 8 Blasphemy, Sacrilege, and Moral Degradation in the Trinidad Carnival: The Hallelujah Controversy of 1995; title: Garth L. Green; title: 9 Pentecostal Community and Jamaican Hierarchy; title: Diane J. Austin-Broos; title: 10 On the "Right Path": Interpolating Religion in Trinidad; title: Aisha Khan; title: 11 The Noise of Astonishment: Spiritual Baptist Music in Context; title: Stephen D. Glazier; title: 12 Chaos, Compromise, and Transformation in the Orisha Religion in Trinidad; title: James Houk; title: 13 Neither Here Nor There: The Place of "Community" in the Jamaican Religious Imagination; title: Kenneth Bilby; title: 14 Between the Living and the Dead: The Apotheosis of Rastafari Heroes; title: Barry Chevannes; title: 15 "Citing[Sighting]-Up": Words, Sounds, and Reading Scripture in Jamaica; title: John W. Pulis.