Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction
Ennis B. Edmonds and Michelle A. Gonzalez
Abstract
The colonial history of the Caribbean created a context in which many religions, from indigenous to African-based to Christian, intermingled with one another, creating a rich diversity of religious life. This book offers the first comprehensive religious history of the region. It begins with the religious traditions of the Amerindians who flourished prior to contact with European colonizers, then details the transplantation of Catholic and Protestant Christianity and their centuries of struggles to become integral to the Caribbean's religious ethos, and traces the twentieth-century penetration ... More
Keywords: Caribbean, colonial history, religious history, Catholic Christianity, Protestant Christianity, American Evangelical Christianity, Africans, Amerindians
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780814722343 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814722343.001.0001 |
