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Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean: African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago - New World Diasporas Keith E. McNeal
Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean: African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago - New World Diasporas
Keith E. McNeal
This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of religion in the Caribbean by analysing the ways ecstatic forms of worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship, have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the context of modernity.
408 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 15, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813061368 |
| Publishers | University Press of Florida |
| Genre | Cultural Region > Caribbean & West Indies |
| Pages | 408 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 235 × 35 mm · 642 g |