Jamaica Genesis: Religion And The Politics Of Moral Orders

Book Summary


How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central yet often oppositional themes in Jamaican religious life

Book Details


Book Name Jamaica Genesis: Religion And The Politics Of Moral Orders
Author Daine J. Austin-broos, Diane J. Austin-broos, Raymond T. Smith
Publisher University Of Chicago Press (Sep 1997)
ISBN 9780226032863
Pages 328
Language English
Price 1056
 
 

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