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

by Stewart, Dianne M.

• ISBN13: 9780195175578
• ISBN10: 0195175573
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation.

Author Biography

Dianne M. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Divination: Introduction	p. 3
Libation: Four Centuries of Encounter and Transition	p. 15
Incantation: European Attitudes toward Africanness in Jamaica	p. 69
Offering: Trajectories of African-Jamaican Religiosity	p. 91
Visitation: The Legacy of African-Derived Religions in Jamaica	p. 139
Communion: Toward a Caribbean Theology of Collective Memory	p. 189
Notes	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 295
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