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Author Stewart, Dianne M.

Title Three eyes for the journey : African dimensions of the Jamaican religious experience / Dianne M. Stewart
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 332 pages) : 1 map
Contents Divination: Introduction; 1. Libation: Four Centuries of Encounter and Transition; 2. Incantation: European Attitudes toward Africanness in Jamaica; 3. Offering: Trajectories of African-Jamaican Religiosity; 4. Visitation: The Legacy of African-Derived Religions in Jamaica; 5. Communion: Toward a Caribbean Theology of Collective Memory; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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 new religious meaning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-310) and index
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Subject Afro-Caribbean cults -- Jamaica
Womanist theology.
RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal.
Afro-Caribbean cults
Religion
Womanist theology
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069320
Subject Jamaica
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 0195154150
9780195154153
9780198039082
0198039085
0195175573
9780195175578
9781435619265
1435619269