Religion, culture, and tradition in the Caribbean

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Religion, culture, and tradition in the Caribbean

edited by Hemchand Gossai and Nathaniel Samuel Murrell

Macmillan, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The Bible is the most widely read and influential book in the Caribbean; the Bible seems to be every where and in every thing. The Bible has been used to name, claim, oppress, and exploit natives and the diaspora populations in the Caribbean, and it continues to define Caribbean reality and morality in the 21st century. In this anthology, Caribbean scholars and scholars of Caribbean studies analyze the most fundamental assumptions and practices derived from different readings of the Bible at different epochs in Caribbean history. From the doleful slave narratives and missionary misreading of biblical text in the 1700s to the modern militant chant of Rastafari; from the Jamaica Maroon uprising to the Grenada Revolution; from the Indo Guyanese women reality to Rastafarian "Sistren" spirituality; from the quiet waters of Anglo Barbadian cultural experience to the high seas of Latino American relations, the anthology tells a griping tale of the struggle of ethnic peoples to find meaning, "existence," and reality in a world they did not create. In a region characterized by Colonialism and now functioning as a post colonial environment with Christians, Hindus, Muslims, and Rastafarians, the possibilities with all their complexities are infinite. The book examines the Caribbean experience from the Caribbean community in Miami to Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

目次

  • Introduction
  • H.Gossai PART ONE: WHOSE TEXT IS IT ANYWAY? COLONIALISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND HISTORY AS RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS AND TEXTS Dangerous Memories, Underdevelopment and The Bible in Colonial Caribbean Experience
  • N.S.Murrell Reggae and Rastafari in Salvador, Bahia: The Caribbean Connection in Brazil
  • J.L.DeCosmo The Faith of the People: The Divina Pastora Devotions of Trinidad
  • G.Boodoo Cubans in Babylon: Exodus and Exile
  • M.A.De La Torre PART TWO: DISCOURSE ON SCRIPTURE, CULTURE, AND POLITICAL INTERACTION Understandings and Interpretations of Scriptures in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Jamaica: The Baptists as Case Study
  • H.O.Russell Is This the Word of the Lord? In Search of Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics, the Eastern Caribbean
  • J.Holder Text and the Rhetoric of Change: Bible and Decolonization in Post World War II Caribbean Political Discourse
  • L.R.James Recasting Identity in Ruth and Hindu Indo-Guyanese Women
  • H.Gossai Identity and Subversion in Babylon: 'Strategies for Resisting Against the System' in the Music of Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • J.R.Middleton PART THREE: PLAYING WITH TEXT IN CARIBBEAN CONTEXT, RASTAFARI, HERMENEUTICS, AND THE POLITICS OF LIBERATION Biblical Hermeneutics in Modern Caribbean Experience, Paradigms and Prospects
  • N.Erskine Daughters of Jah: The Impact of Rastafarian Womanhood in the Caribbean, the United States, Britain, and Canada
  • L.Collins Riddim Wise and Scripture Smart: Interview and Interpretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah
  • D.J.N.Middleton Holy Piby: Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist Epic with Commentary
  • N.S.Murrell

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