xvi, 265 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-254) and indexes

The encounter of religions in a new world -- The indigenous inhabitants : Caribs and Arawaks (Tainos) -- The encounter of the indigenous Caribbean -- Inhabitants with the Spanish -- The encounter with other Europeans and their religions -- Entrance of the African peoples into the Caribbean and their religious influences and interactions -- The interactions of Africans and indigenous -- Arawaks and Caribs -- Hindu and Islamic encounters and interactions in the Caribbean -- The present setting of Caribbean religious interactions -- Expansion of Protestant Christianity in the Caribbean -- Africans appropriations of Christianity in the Caribbean -- Problems in the encounters and interactions of Christianity with non-Christian religions and perspectives in the Caribbean -- Challenges of non-Christian spirituality to Christian -- Spirituality in the Caribbean -- Syncretism and Christianity in the Caribbean

Adaptations and syncretic challenges of East Indian and other spiritualities in the Caribbean -- Issues of religio-social and cultural manifestations -- Found in Caribbean religions : Cuban Santeria and Haitian vodou, Brazilian candomblè and Trinidadian shango -- Crucial issues in Cuban santeria and Haitian vodou -- The process of syncretism in Cuban santeria -- The process of syncretism in Haitian vodun -- Syncretism as an issue in Caribbean religion -- Candomblé and issues of class, race, gender, and ethnicity -- Trinidadian shango and issues of class, race, gender, and ethnicity -- Crucial issues in Obeah and Rastafari -- Crucial issues of freedom and resistance to oppression, racism, ethnicity, and gender relations in Obeah/Myal -- Crucial issues in Rastafari : religious, social, political, racial, gender relations -- Crucial issues in Haitian vodou -- Dance of the spirit -- Issues of community, service, and devotion in vodou -- Communalism : the expanded community.

Commemoration and revivification in the face of hardships -- Crucial issues in Cuban and Puerto Rican santeria and Trinidadian shango/orisa -- Orisa religions in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad : the conquest culture syndrome -- Issues of continuity and change, repression and resistance -- Espiritismo in Cuba and Puerto Rico : racial, class, and ethnic issues -- Impact of Afro-Cubanism on Cuban santeria -- Africa's oshun in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and the multifarious image of la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre : (the virgin of charity of cobre) -- Symbols of continuity and change in Caribbean religions -- Crucial issues in Jamaican religions -- Issues in native Baptist religion and revival cults of Pukkumina and revival zion -- Crucial issues of resistance, religious and cultural identity, land, syncretism, political and social -- Radicalism in Rastafari -- Crucial issues reflected in the beliefs and practices and religious forms of Rasta

The moving of spirit a comparative vision -- The maintenance of and the recovery and restoration of the self and the genuine religious experience -- Spirituality beyond religion transcendence and universal religious vision in Caribbean religions

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