Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience

Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience
ISBN-10
0195154150
ISBN-13
9780195154153
Category
Religion
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
2005-07-07
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Dianne M. Stewart

Description

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.

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