Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean : African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago /

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The first book-length work to compare and contrast Afro- and Indo-Caribbean materials in a systematic and multidimensional manner, this volume makes fresh and innovative contributions to anthropology, religious studies, and the historiography of modernity. By giving both religious subcultures and th...

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Main Author: McNeal, Keith E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yoruba (African people) > Religion.
Trance > Religious aspects.
Religion.
Popular culture.
Hindus > Religion.
Transe > Trinite-et-Tobago > Aspect religieux.
Yoruba (Peuple d'Afrique) > Trinite-et-Tobago > Religion.
Hindous > Trinite-et-Tobago > Religion.
Culture populaire > Trinite-et-Tobago.
Trance > Trinidad and Tobago > Religious aspects.
Yoruba (African people) > Trinidad and Tobago > Religion.
Hindus > Trinidad and Tobago > Religion.
Popular culture > Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinite-et-Tobago > Religion.
Trinidad and Tobago > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : ecstasy
  • Catching power, playing deep
  • Hierarchy and heterodoxy in a maze of color
  • Serving the Orishas
  • Doing the Mother's work
  • Sides and paths : spirits and transculturation in the southern Caribbean
  • Religion and the politics of diaspora in the era of postcolonial multiculturalism
  • Epilogue : ecstasy in exile.

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