Jamaica genesis : religion and the politics of moral orders
Examines how Pentecostalism has managed to achieve such ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominantly African descent. This book argues that it has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central themes in Jamaican religious life.
Print Book, English, 1997
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997
304 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780226032863, 9780226032849, 0226032868, 0226032841
1025780756
List of Illustrations Foreword Raymond T. Smith Preface Introduction 1: Cast into a Tumultuous World 2: A Certain Moral Inheritance 3: Revival and the Healing of Sin 4: Hierarchy and Revival Culture: Precursors to Pentecostalism 5: Preachers and Pentecostalism 6: A Modern Pentecostalism: Ritual Resolutions and Gender Divides 7: Pentecostal Experience and Embodied Rite 8: Exhorting the Saints 9: Hierarchy, Healing, and the Birth of Brides Conclusion App. I: Table 1. Population by Religious Affiliation, by Sex, All Jamaica App: Table 2. Adherents for Selected Faiths App. II: The Pauline Injunctions to Feminine Submission Notes Bibliography Index
Apendice: cuadros estadisticos, p. 245
Bibliografia: p. 275-295