Collection: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) / Format: Book, Edited / Publication Year: 1998 / Subject Term: Religion

Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Format Book, Edited Publication Year 1998 Subject Term Religion

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Clarke, Peter B. (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 309 p., Examines how African religions display themselves in the contemporary world, particularly in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. It studies their continued dynamism and relationship with other religious traditions, and contributes to the ongoing debate on syncretism. Includes Stephen D. Glazier's "Contested rituals of the African diaspora," pp. 105-119.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Chevannes,Barry (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, in September 1989. Originally published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1995., 282 p, By focusing on the worldview of Jamaican and other Caribbean peoples, this collection of essays explores the themes of cultural continuity and change between the Rastafari, on the one hand, and Revival, Ndyuka and Winti religions, on the other. A wide range of topics are covered: continuity between Rastafari and Revival, the origin and symbolism of the dreadlocks, the process of Rastafari integration into British society, the Gaan Gadu cult, home rituals, and the theoretical problems of African retention in the Caribbean.

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