The Encyclopedia Of Caribbean Religions

Author : Patrick Taylor,Frederick I. Case
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780252094330

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The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions by Patrick Taylor,Frederick I. Case Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions is the definitive reference for Caribbean religious phenomena from a Caribbean perspective. Generously illustrated, this landmark project combines the breadth of a comparative approach to religion with the depth of understanding of Caribbean spirituality as an ever-changing and varied historical phenomenon. Organized alphabetically, entries examine how Caribbean religious experiences have been shaped by and have responded to the processes of colonialism and the challenges of the postcolonial world. Systematically organized by theme and area, the encyclopedia considers religious traditions such as Vodou, Rastafari, Sunni Islam, Sanatan Dharma, Judaism, and the Roman Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Detailed subentries present topics such as religious rituals, beliefs, practices, specific historical developments, geographical differences, and gender roles within major traditions. Also included are entries that address the religious dimensions of geographical territories that make up the Caribbean. Representing the culmination of more than a decade of work by the associates of the Caribbean Religions Project, The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions will foster a greater understanding of the role of religion in Caribbean life and society, in the Caribbean diaspora, and in wider national and transnational spaces.

Author : Patrick Taylor,Frederick Ivor Case
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0252037227

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The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions by Patrick Taylor,Frederick Ivor Case Pdf

Author : Patrick Taylor,Frederick Ivor Case
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0252037235

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The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions by Patrick Taylor,Frederick Ivor Case Pdf

Author : Mozella G. Mitchell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820488631

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Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions by Mozella G. Mitchell Pdf

Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions concentrates on the effects of intersections in the Caribbean of major world religions such as Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, with indigenous religions such as Caribs and Arawaks, and African-derived religions such as Lucumi (Yoruba/Santeria/Regla de Ocha), Regla de Palo, Vodun, Obeah, Rastafari, Orisa, or Shango in Trinidad. Closely examined are the social and economic problems and issues of exile, slavery, oppression, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, cultural dominance, religious diversity, syncretism, popular religiosity, religious and spiritual imperialism, continuity and change, survival techniques in the face of attempts at eradication by religious powers, interreligious dialogue, and the quest for universal spirituality.

Author : Henri Gooren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 331927077X

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions by Henri Gooren Pdf

This encyclopedia provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms. These main religions include (but are not limited to) the major expressions of Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses), indigenous religions (Native American, Maya religion), syncretic Christianity (including Afro-Brazilian religions like Umbanda and Candomblé and Afro-Caribbean religions like Vodun and Santería), other world religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam), transnational New Religious Movements (Scientology, Unification Church, Hare Krishna, New Age, etc.), and new local religions (Brazil’s Igreja Universal, La Luz del Mundo from Mexico, etc.).

Author : Henri Gooren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 3319089560

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions by Henri Gooren Pdf

Author : Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert,Margarite Fernández Olmos
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814762578

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Creole Religions of the Caribbean by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert,Margarite Fernández Olmos Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions developed in the Caribbean region Creolization—the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices—is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions that have developed in the region. From Vodou, Santería, Regla de Palo, the Abakuá Secret Society, and Obeah to Quimbois and Espiritismo, the volume traces the historical–cultural origins of the major Creole religions, as well as the newer traditions such as Pocomania and Rastafarianism. This second edition updates the scholarship on the religions themselves and also expands the regional considerations of the Diaspora to the U. S. Latino community who are influenced by Creole spiritual practices. Fernández Olmos and Paravisini–Gebert also take into account the increased significance of material culture—art, music, literature—and healing practices influenced by Creole religions.

Author : David Adams Leeming,Kathryn Madden,Stanton Marlan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780387718019

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Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z by David Adams Leeming,Kathryn Madden,Stanton Marlan Pdf

Integrating psychology and religion, this unique encyclopedia offers a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. It provides an intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world’s religious traditions. Easy-to-read, the encyclopedia draws from forty different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion.

Author : Ennis B Edmonds,Michelle A Gonzalez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814722503

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Caribbean Religious History by Ennis B Edmonds,Michelle A Gonzalez Pdf

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.

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0253346878

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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native American creation stories by Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon Pdf

A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Author : Frank A. Salamone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : 0415880912

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals and Festivals by Frank A. Salamone Pdf

This book examines religious beliefs expressed through ritualized behavior and festivals.

Author : Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1119 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442271579

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Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South by Mark A. Lamport Pdf

Christianity has transformed many times in its 2,000-year history, from its roots in the Middle East to its presence around the world today. From the mid-twentieth century onward the presence of Christianity has increased dramatically in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the majority of the world’s Christians are now nonwhite and non-Western. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South traces both the historical evolution and contemporary themes in Christianity in more than 150 countries and regions. The volumes include maps, images, and a detailed timeline of key events. The phrases “Global Christianity” and “World Christianity” are inadequate to convey the complexity of the countries and regions involved—this encyclopedia, with its more than 500 entries, aims to offer rich perspectives on the varieties of Christianity where it is growing, how the spread of Christianity shapes the faith in various regions, and how the faith is changing worldwide.

Author : Niall Finneran,Christina Welch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351025447

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Materialities of Religion by Niall Finneran,Christina Welch Pdf

This book offers an overview of the material expressions of Caribbean religious expressions, including those that have been imported through the vehicle of colonialism, and which subsequently changed and adapted within the Caribbean Islands and those religious expressions which developed through the contact of African, indigenous and imported world views. This book takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing from subjects as diverse as archaeology, religious studies, history, human geography and anthropology. It introduces current topical debates around the role of colonialism and religion in the Caribbean, and also considers theoretical approaches to the study of Caribbean religions set within a wider global context. This approach introduces the reader to a number of important and topical concepts around the wider study of Caribbean religions, and illuminates the complex cultural history and interplay of these religions in the Caribbean Islands. Richly illustrated and drawing upon a range of different cultural approaches, it offers new and challenging perspectives on the development and cultural history of Caribbean spiritual and religious expression through the lens of the material world. The book is for anyone interested in the Caribbean as a region and the role of religious behaviour in human society. Students of religions, archaeology and anthropology will find a number of thought-provoking and important case studies which relate complex theories to real-world case studies. Any profits from this book will be donated to UNICEF Eastern Caribbean projects supporting vulnerable children in the region (https://www.unicef.org/easterncaribbean/).

Author : Bettina Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351953351

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Caribbean Diaspora in the USA by Bettina Schmidt Pdf

Caribbean Diaspora in the USA presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. All cultures are full of breaks and contradictions as Latin American and Caribbean theorists have demonstrated in their ongoing debate. This book combines unique research by the author in Caribbean New York with the theoretical discourse of Latin American and Caribbean scholars. Focusing on Caribbean religious communities, including Cuban/Puerto Rican Santería (Regla de Ocha), Haitian Vodou, Shango (Orisha Baptist) from Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazilian Pentecostal church, Schmidt's observations lead to the construction of a cultural concept that illustrates a culture in an ongoing state of change, with more than one form of expression depending on situation, time and context. Showing the creativity of religions and the way immigrants adapt to their new surroundings, this book fills a gap between Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Author : Ennis Barrington Edmonds,Ennis B. Edmonds,Michelle A. Gonzalez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814722350

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Caribbean Religious History by Ennis Barrington Edmonds,Ennis B. Edmonds,Michelle A. Gonzalez Pdf

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.