Religion, Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean,9780312232429

Religion, Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean

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ISBN13: 9780312232429
ISBN10: 031223242X
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Pub. Date: 2000-09-30
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

The Bible is the most widely read and influential book in the Caribbean. It seems to be everywhere 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, scholars analyze the most fundamental assumptions and practices derived from different readings of the Bible at different epochs in Caribbean history. It tells a gripping tale of the struggle of ethnic peoples to find meaning, "existence," and reality in a world they did not create.

Author Biography

Hemchand Gossai is Associate Professor of Religion at Muhlenberg College.

Nathaniel Samuel Murrell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Permissions ix
Introduction 1(8)
Part I Whose Text is it Anyway? Colonialism, Christianity, and History as Religious Contexts and Texts
Dangerous Memories, Underdevelopment, and the Bible in Colonial Caribbean Experience
9(28)
Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Reggae and Rastafari in Salvador, Bahia: The Caribbean Connection in Brazil
37(28)
Janet L. DeCosmo
The Faith of the People: The Divina Pastora Devotions of Trinidad
65(8)
Gerald Boodoo
Cubans in Babylon: Exodus and Exile
73(22)
Miguel A. De La Torre
Part II Discourse on Scripture, Culture, and Political Interaction
Understandings and Interpretations of Scripture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica: The Baptists as Case Study
95(24)
Horace O. Russell
Is This the Word of the Lord? In Search of Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics, the Eastern Caribbean
119(24)
John Holder
Text and the Rhetoric of Change: Bible and Decolonization in Post-World War II Caribbean Political Discourse
143(24)
Leslie R. James
Recasting Identity in Ruth and Hindu Indo-Guyanese Women
167(14)
Hemchand Gossai
Identity and Subversion in Babylon: Strategies for ``Resisting Against the System'' in the Music of Bob Marley and the Wailers
181(28)
J. Richard Middleton
Part III Playing with Text in the Caribbean Context: Rastafari, Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Liberation
Biblical Hermeneutics in Modern Caribbean Experience: Paradigms and Prospects
209(18)
Noel Leo Erskine
Daughtgers of Jah: The Impact of Rastafarian Womanhood in the Caribbean, the United States, Britain, and Canada
227(30)
Loretta Collins
Riddim Wise and Scripture Smart: Interview and Interpretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah
257(14)
Darren J. N. Middleton
Holy Piby: Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist Epic with Commentary
271(36)
Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Notes on Contributors 307(4)
Index 311

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