Jamaica genesis : religion and the politics of moral orders /

Jamaica genesis : religion and the politics of moral orders /

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Author / Creator:Austin-Broos, Diane J.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1997.
Description:304 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Pentecostal churches -- Jamaica.
Sociology, Christian -- Jamaica.
Christian sociology.
Pentecostal churches.
Jamaica -- Church history -- 20th century.
Jamaica -- Religious life and customs.
Jamaica.
Church history.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2726534
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ISBN:0226032841 (alk. paper)
0226032868 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cast into a Tumultuous World
  • 2. A Certain Moral Inheritance
  • 3. Revival and the Healing of Sin
  • 4. Hierarchy and Revival Culture: Precursors to Pentecostalism
  • 5. Preachers and Pentecostalism
  • 6. A Modern Pentecostalism: Ritual Resolutions and Gender Divides
  • 7. Pentecostal Experience and Embodied Rite
  • 8. Exhorting the Saints
  • 9. Hierarchy, Healing, and the Birth of Brides
  • Conclusion
  • App. I. Table 1. Population by Religious Affiliation, by Sex, All Jamaica
  • App: Table 2. Adherents for Selected Faiths
  • App. II. The Pauline Injunctions to Feminine Submission
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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