Materialities of Faith: Religious Traditions of the Colonial and Put up-colonial Caribbean, by Niall Finneran and Christina Welch, shall be revealed by Routledge in September 2023. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
Description: This e book presents an summary of the fabric expressions of Caribbean non secular expressions, together with these which have been imported by way of the car of colonialism, and which subsequently modified and tailored inside the Caribbean islands and people non secular expressions which developed by way of the contact of African, indigenous and imported world views.
This e book takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing from topics as various as archaeology, non secular research, historical past, human geography and anthropology. It introduces present topical debates across the position of colonialism and faith within the Caribbean, and likewise considers theoretical approaches to the research of Caribbean religions set inside a wider world context. This strategy introduces the reader to a lot of essential and topical ideas across the wider research of Caribbean religions and illuminates the advanced cultural historical past and interaction of those religions within the Caribbean islands. Richly illustrated and drawing upon a variety of various cultural approaches, it presents new and difficult views on the event and cultural historical past of Caribbean non secular and non secular expression by way of the lens of the fabric world. [. . .]
Desk of Contents:
1: Introduction; 2: The context of Caribbean non secular expression; 3: Methodology and concept within the research of the materiality of Caribbean faith; 4: Christianity, colonialism and the Caribbean; 5: The Jewish and Islamic Caribbean, and up to date non secular introductions; 6: African-Caribbean creolised non secular traditions of the Larger Antilles; 7: African-Caribbean creolised non secular traditions of Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean; 8: Caribbean spirituality within the twenty first century: a cloth consideration
Niall Finneran is professor of historic archaeology and heritage research on the College of Winchester. His PhD was in African archaeology from the College of Cambridge, and he has additionally been working within the Caribbean for over twenty years, primarily within the Windward Islands. He has written extensively on materials tradition, non secular id and group heritage.
Christina Welch is a Reader in non secular research on the College of Winchester. Her PhD analysis centered upon indigenous identities in North America and since then has developed an internationally important analysis experience round loss of life research, Caribbean indigenous data programs and plant use, and group heritage.
Materialities of Faith: Religious Traditions of the Colonial and Put up-colonial Caribbean
Routledge, September 2023
336 pages
ISBN 978-1138494824
For extra info, see https://www.routledge.com/Materialities-of-Faith-Religious-Traditions-of-the-colonial-and-post-colonial/Finneran-Welch/p/e book/9781138494824