Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean Open ebook -
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Nation Dance
Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean
Edited by Patrick Taylor
Addresses the interplay of diverse spiritual, religious, and cultural traditions across the Caribbean.Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book's three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora.
The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santera a, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner's voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of nations across the waters.Patrick Taylor, Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto, is past Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean and Editor-in-Chief of the Caribbean Religions Project. He is author of The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture and Politics and co-editor of Forging Identities and Patterns of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. His articles have appeared in Callaloo, Studies in Religion, and other scholarly journals and books.
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Contents
AcknowledgmentsDancing the Nation: An Introduction, Patrick Taylor
I. Spirituality, Healing and the DivineAcross the Waters: Practitioners Speak, Eva Fernandez, Yvonne B. Drakes, and Deloris Seiveright
How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land? Constructing the Divine in Caribbean Contexts, Althea Prince
Communicating with our Gods: The Language of Winti, Petronella BreinburgThe Intersemiotics of Obeah and Kali Mai in Guyana, Frederick Ivor Case
Religions of African Origin in Cuba: A Gender Perspective, Mara a Margarita Castro FloresII. Theology, Society and Politics
Sheba's Song: The Bible, the Kebra Nagast and the Rastafari, Patrick TaylorThemes from West Indian Church History in Colonial and Post-Colonial Times, Arthur C. Dayfoot
Congregationalism and Afro-Guyanese Autonomy, Juanita de BarrosEden after Eve: Christian Fundamentalism and Women in Barbados, Judith Soares
Current Evolution of Relations between Religion and Politics in Haiti, Laa1/2nnec HurbonIII. Religion, Identity, and Diaspora
Jamaican Diasporic Identity: The Metaphor of Yaad, Barry ChevannesIdentity, Personhood and Religion in Caribbean Context, Abrahim H. Khan
Sanfancan: Orientalism, Self-Orientalization, and Chinese Religion in Cuba, Frank F. SchererThe Diasporic Mo(ve)ment: Indentureship and Indo-Caribbean Identity, Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo
Caribbean Religions: A Selected Bibliography"
Details
- Title Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean
- Author Patrick Taylor (Editor)
- Binding Open Ebook
- Pages 233
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- ISBN 9780253108586 / 0253108586
- Dewey Decimal Code 200.972
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