Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

by Diane J. Austin-Broos

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226032868
• ISBN13: 9780226032863
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"