Jamaica Genesis

Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

By: Diane J. Austin-Broos

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Paperback | 2 September 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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--the characteristically African striving for personal freedom and happiness, and the Protestant struggle for atonement and salvation through rigorous ethical piety. With its emphasis on the individual experience of grace and on the ritual efficacy of spiritual healing, and with its vibrantly expressive worship, Jamaican Pentecostalism has become a powerful and compelling vehicle for the negotiation of such fundamental issues as gender, sexuality, race, and class. Jamaica Genesis is a work of signal importance to all those concerned not simply with Caribbean studies but with the ongoing transformation of religion andculture.

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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Cast into a Tumultuous World
A Certain Moral Inheritance
Revival and the Healing of Sin
Hierarchy and Revival Culture: Precursors to Pentecostalism
Preachers and Pentecostalism
A Modern Pentecostalism: Ritual Resolutions and Gender Divides
Pentecostal Experience and Embodied Rite
Exhorting the Saints
Hierarchy, Healing, and the Birth of Brides
Conclusion
Table 1. Population by Religious Affiliation, by Sex, All Jamaica
App: Table 2. Adherents for Selected Faiths
The Pauline Injunctions to Feminine Submission
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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