1st Edition
Believing Identity Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
By Nicole Toulis
Copyright 1997
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction, 'Long time gal me no see you', The Brethren of the King Street New Testament, Church of God , 'Moving up the King's Highway': African-Caribbean Pentecostalism in Jamaica and England, 'Born of The Water, The Spirit and The Blood': The Individual and the Collective 'I may be Black, but we're from the same hand, the hand of God': The Construction and Mediation of Identity , Wives, Mothers and Female Saints: Women in the Church
Biography
Nicole Toulis City University of New York
