
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 |