Three Eyes for the Journey

African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-515415-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. She examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical and contemporary Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a new womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars interested in Carribean, African and African-American religion

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Dianne M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen Indigene Religionen Amerikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen Indigene Religionen Asiens, Australasiens und Ozeaniens
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen Indigene Religionen Afrikas

Über Autor(innen)

Dianne M. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Religion, Emory University