Jamaica Genesis

Author : Diane J. Austin-Broos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924815
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Genesis written by Diane J. Austin-Broos and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central yet often oppositional themes in Jamaican religious life—the characteristically African striving for personal freedom and happiness, and the Protestant struggle for atonement and salvation through rigorous ethical piety. With its emphasis on the individual experience of grace and on the ritual efficacy of spiritual healing, and with its vibrantly expressive worship, Jamaican Pentecostalism has become a powerful and compelling vehicle for the negotiation of such fundamental issues as gender, sexuality, race, and class. Jamaica Genesis is a work of signal importance to all those concerned not simply with Caribbean studies but with the ongoing transformation of religion andculture.

Author : Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477231
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Genesis written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Author : Antonia Purk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311102752X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History written by Antonia Purk and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid’s texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This study examines the entanglements of temporalities in current perceptions of the past and how literary text intervenes in historical consciousness. With a focus on the media text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book demonstrate how Kincaid’s "poetics of impermanence" counter colonial representations of history with strategies of ambiguity, repetition, and redirection. Kincaid’s texts repeat and revise aspects of colonial history – a process that decenters the totality of historical colonial ideology and replaces it with self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices.

Author : Holger Henke
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739121610
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean written by Holger Henke and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing, and displaced transnational space. The Trans-Caribbean is therefore understood as a space suspended in a double dialectic, which opposes both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the romanticized, yet colonialized, "inner plantation" (Kamau Brathwaite), whose transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an illusion.

Author : Alastair Lockhart
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438472870
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing written by Alastair Lockhart and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world. The Panacea Society was a small religious community of women that was established in England in the early twentieth century. They followed the early nineteenth-century mystic Joanna Southcott, as well other emerging spiritual movements of the day, and developed a remarkable spiritual healing practice that spread around the world. Based on the thousands of letters held in the Society’s healing archive, which were sent by ordinary people from around the world, Alastair Lockhart offers a detailed study of the religious ideas of religious seekers from the 1920s to the 1970s. Focusing on Great Britain, Finland, Jamaica, and the US, Lockhart provides unique insight into the personal nature of spirituality in recent times and how ancient and modern spiritual strands were harnessed to the needs of late-modern spiritual seekers. This book addresses debates about the complexity and meaning of the rise or decline of religion in the twentieth century and the processes involved in the formation of popular nontraditional spiritualities. It informs our understanding of global and transnational religions and recent forms of spiritual healing. At the University of Cambridge, Alastair Lockhart is Affiliate Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity and a Fellow of Hughes Hall.

Author : American Comparative Literature Association
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139280
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean Double Crossings written by American Comparative Literature Association and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original versions of these contributions were presented at the 2002 conference of the American Comparative Literature Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Author : Delroy A. Reid-Salmon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317490525
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Away from Home written by Delroy A. Reid-Salmon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated two-thirds of Caribbeans live outside their homeland. 'Home Away from Home' identifies the different forms of Caribbean diasporan identity and argues that the faith Caribbean people brought with them into the diaspora plays a central role in their development. The study provides a theological interpretation of the diasporan experience, and outlines the principles of diasporan theology and the distinctiveness of its church. Focusing on the Caribbean diaspora in the US, and analysing aspects of the Caribbean British diaspora, the book forges a Black Atlantic theology. The volume also engages with wider discourse on the Black diaspora to offer an inclusive Caribbean diasporan ecclesiology that overcomes Black African-American/Euro-American binaries.

Author : Kathleen E. A. Monteith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401085
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom written by Kathleen E. A. Monteith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.

Author : Vinson Synan
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1629987670
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Renewal Christianity written by Vinson Synan and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2016 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of one-hundred years of Pentecostal history in Latin America and addresses the move of the Holy Spirit in nations such as Brazil, Columbia, Argentina Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico, as well as the Caribbean.,

Author : Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190916966
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions written by Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is a microcosm of the world. In this very small geographic space one encounters global religions as well as religious practices that are indigenous to the region. This volume provides an overview of Caribbean religions, one that respects the diversity of the religious traditions and the national particularity of the region. It addresses the prominent religious traditions in the Caribbean, with a focus on multiple geographic settings, and examines a cross-section of themes that impact the region broadly and the academic study of Caribbean religion.