Collection: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) / Publication Year: 2001 / Subject Term: Religion / Language: English

Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Publication Year 2001 Subject Term Religion Language English

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Nodal,Roberto (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2001
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations
Notes:: 247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Shivers,Kaia (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2001-05-23
Published:: Los Angeles, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sentinel
Journal Title Details:: 8 : B3
Notes:: Not rooted or identified as a Brazilian martial art, Capoiera Angola is the foundation of which African-Brazilians adapted the rhythmic form of self-defense and offense called Capoiera. The indigineous Capoiera Angola is the mother/father of Brazil's Capoeira, which was formed when Africans from Central Africa were brought to South America in bondage. Capoeira Angola goes further.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lampe,Armando (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2001
Published:: Kingston Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: A collection of essays on the history of Christianity and the role of the Church in the processes of colonization and decolonization in the Caribbean. The work is a cross-cultural study of the Church and society in the Dutch, Spanish, French and English Caribbean. It looks at the relationships that existed among slavery, colonialism and Catholicism, Christianity and decolonization, and the church and military dictatorships. Contents: The beginnings of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean / Johannes Meier -- Protestantism and slavery in the British Caribbean / Keith Hunte -- Christianity and slavery in the Dutch Caribbean / Armando Lampe -- The Catholic Church and the state in Haiti, 1804-1915 / Laënnec Hurbon -- The Catholic Church and the state in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1960 / William Wipfler -- Protestantism in Cuba, 1868-1968 / Theo Tschuy

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