Religion and Society in Post-Emancipation Jamaica. - STEWART, ROBERT J.
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What role did religion or the agents of religion, both European and Afro-Jamaican, play in the conflicts that characterized the formation of a creole society in Jamaica after emancipation? Beginning from this question, Robert J. Stewart has produced the most comprehensive available treatment of the religious, social, and cultural history of nineteenth-century Jamaica. This remarkable volume explores the interaction of two Christianities, one European and the other African-based. It examines the organization, presence, politics, and mission philosophy of the major Christian denominations, as well as the creative responses of Afro-Jamaicans to evangelization. The ideological, theological, and racial assumptions embraced by the various denominations and missionaries prevented them from valuing Africanisms in the religious and cultural heritage of Afro-Jamaicans and, with Baptist exceptions, from identifying with the latter's aspirations and social problems. In consequence, Afro-Jamaican religion became a source ...
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1992 Uitgever: University of Tennessee Press 254 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0870497499 ISBN-13: 9780870497490Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: frontispiece, xxij, 254pp., chapternotes & references, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy. map Knoxville, The University of Tennessee Press. 1992 [Auteur: STEWART, ROBERT J.] [Jaar: 1992] [Titel: Religion and Society in Post-Emancipation Jamaica.]
