Nation Dance - Patrick Taylor

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Résumé :
Patrick Taylor is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. He is past Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean and Editor-in-Chief of the Caribbean Religions Project. Author of The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture and Politics and co-editor of Forging Identities and Patterns of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, his articles have appeared in Callaloo, Studies in Religion, and other scholarly journals and books

Biographie:
Patrick Taylor is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. He is past Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean and Editor-in-Chief of the Caribbean Religions Project. Author of The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture and Politics and co-editor of Forging Identities and Patterns of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, his articles have appeared in Callaloo, Studies in Religion, and other scholarly journals and books

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ContentsAcknowledgments
Dancing the Nation: An Introduction
Patrick TaylorI. Spirituality, Healing and the Divine
1. Across the Waters: Practitioners Speak
Eva Fernandez, Yvonne B. Drakes, Deloris Seiveright
2. How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land? Constructing the Divine in Caribbean Contexts
Althea Prince
3. Communicating with our Gods: The Language of Winti
Petronella Breinburg
4. The Intersemiotics of Obeah and Kali Mai in Guyana
Frederick Ivor Case
5. Religions of African Origin in Cuba: A Gender Perspective
Mar?a Margarita Castro FloresII. Theology, Society and Politics
6. Sheba's Song: The Bible, the Kebra Nagast and the Rastafari
Patrick Taylor
7. Themes from West Indian Church History in Colonial and Post-Colonial Times
Arthur C. Dayfoot
8. Congregationalism and Afro-Guyanese Autonomy
Juanita de Barros
9. Eden After Eve: Christian Fundamentalism and Women in Barbados
Judith Soares
10. Current Evolution of Relations Between Religion and Politics in Haiti
La?nnec HurbonIII. Religion, Identity and Diaspora
11. Jamaican Diasporic Identity: The Metaphor of Yaad
Barry Chevannes
12. Identity, Personhood and Religion in Caribbean Context
Abrahim H. Khan
13. Sanfanc?n: Orientalism, Self-Orientalization and Chinese Religion in Cuba
Frank F. Scherer
14. The Diasporic Mo(ve)ment: Indentureship and Indo-Caribbean Identity
Sean Lokaisingh-MeighooCaribbean Religions: A Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index