Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean : African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New World Diasporas
ISBN-10
0813061369
ISBN-13
9780813061368
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Imprint
University Press of Florida
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2015
Print length
408 Pages
Weight
642 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 3.50 cms
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This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of religion in the Caribbean by analysing the ways ecstatic forms of worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship, have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the context of modernity.
"Provides us with a masterful account of how socially marginalized segments of the African and Indian communities of Trinidad and Tobago developed trance-based religious cults linked with differing cultural heritages. Penetrating deeply into these two different communities with his careful fieldwork, he then places them within a brilliant account of the overall cultural history of this island nation."--Paul Younger, author of "New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa"
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