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This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto

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This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion within the context of recent migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas largest black population, a good portion of which contains Caribbean migrants and their descendants.

This book shows how the development of the Spiritual Baptist religion in Canada has been shaped by the immigration experiences of church members, the large majority of whom are women, and it examines the ways through which religious experiences have mediated the members’ experiences of migration and on a regular basis life in Canada. This Spot of Ground is in response to a very important ethnography, with in-depth interviews and participant observations of church products and services and other ritual activities, including baptism and pilgrimage and field research in Trinidad that explores the transnational linkages with Spiritual Baptists there. The book addresses theoretical and methodological issues also, including the development of perspectives suitable for examining diasporic African religious and cultural expressions characterized by transnational migration, an emphasis on oral tradition as the repository of cultural history, and linguistic and cultural hybridity.

This Spot of Ground contributes new information to the study of Caribbean religion and culture within the diaspora, providing a detailed examination of the importance of religion within the immigration process and identity and community formations of Caribbean people in Canada.

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