A01=Dianne M. Stewart
Author_Dianne M. Stewart
Category=JHMC
Category=QRA
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Product details
- ISBN 9780195175578
- Weight: 508g
- Dimensions: 235 x 157mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. She examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical and contemporary Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a new womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.
Dianne M. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory University.
