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Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

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How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American type of Christian revivalism, managed to reach such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among folks of predominately African descent? In line with Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central yet ceaselessly 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 at the individual revel in of grace and at the ritual efficacy of spiritual healing, and with its vibrantly expressive worship, Jamaican Pentecostalism has grow to be 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 the ones concerned not simply with Caribbean studies but with the continuing transformation of religion andculture.
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