Believing Identity

Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England

Paperback Engels 1997 1e druk 9781859731093
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The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged. Rather, in the New Testament Church of God, one of Britain's largest African Caribbean churches, the cosmology of the church resolves the questions surrounding identity as well as suffering. Religious participation is one way in which African Caribbean people negotiate the terms of representation and interaction in British society.

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ISBN13:9781859731093
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:320
Druk:1

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