Details

Subject(s)

• Caribbean Area—Religion [Browse]
• Caribbean Area—Religious life and customs [Browse]

Editor

• Maldonado, Michelle G. [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks. [More in this series]
• Oxford Handbooks Series

Summary note

'The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions' offers a comprehensive overview of Caribbean religions, one that respects the diversity of the religious traditions and the national particularity of the region. Focusing on multiple geographic settings, this volume addresses the prominent religious traditions in the Caribbean by examining a cross-section of themes that impact the region and the academic study of Caribbean religion.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2024.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 15, 2024).
• Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I. Overview of Religious Traditions
• 1. Taíno Religion
• 2. Roman Catholicism
• 3. Protestant Christianity: Colonial
• 4. Protestant Christianity: Modern
• 5. Haitian Vodou
• 6. Santería
• 7. Abakuá
• 8. Palo, Las Reglas de Congo, Kongo Rule
• 9. Black Souls Rising in the Rastafari Communities
• 10. Hinduism
• 11. Judaism
• 12. Islam
• 13. Revival Zion and Spiritual Baptists
• 14. Orisha Religion
• 15. Espiritismo
• Part II. Caribbean Religions throughout the Americas
• 16. Cuba
• 17. Haiti
• 18. Jamaica
• 19. Trinidad and Tobago
• 20. Contested Religion in Puerto Rico: From Hegemonic Christianity to Queer Socioreligious Activism
• 21. United States
• Part III. Themes
• 22. Divination in Afro-​Caribbean Religions
• 23. Gender in Caribbean Religion
• 24. Rituals
• 25. Wholeness by Every Means: Religiomedical Healing in the Caribbean
• 26. Possession
• 27. Religion and Literature in the Colonial Spanish Caribbean
• 28. Afro-​Cuban Religions in Cuban Literature: Archival Oralities of Culture
• 29. Caribbean Religious Art
• 30. Making Caribbean Religious Musics
• 31. Material Religion
• 32. Popular Culture and Caribbean Religions
• 33. The Lukumí in Cyberspace
• 34. Food
• 35. Belief and the Cult of San Lázaro
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-091697-4
• 0-19-091698-2
• 0-19-091699-0

OCLC

1417318484

Doi

• 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190916961.001.0001

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