Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions / Edition 1

by Mozella Mitchell

Overview

Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions concentrates on the effects of intersections in the Caribbean of major world religions such as Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, with indigenous religions such as Caribs and Arawaks, and African-derived religions such as Lucumi (Yoruba/Santeria/Regla de Ocha), Regla de Palo, Vodun, Obeah, Rastafari, Orisa, or Shango in Trinidad. Closely examined are the social and economic problems and issues of exile, slavery, oppression, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, cultural dominance, religious diversity, syncretism, popular religiosity, religious and spiritual imperialism, continuity and change, survival techniques in the face of attempts at eradication by religious powers, interreligious dialogue, and the quest for universal spirituality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820488639
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	10/14/2006
Series:	Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Studies in Religion, Culture, and Social Development , #10
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

The Author: Mozella G. Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She received her Ph.D. in literature and theology from Emory University, Atlanta. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals and edited collections, she is the author of New Africa in America: The Blending of African and American Religious and Social Traditions among Black People in Meridian, Mississippi and Surrounding Counties (Peter Lang, 1995), and editor of The Human Search: Howard Thurman and the Quest for Freedom (Peter Lang, 1992).