Paula L. Aymer

Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean

Studies from Grenada and Barbados

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the evangelical Christian worship focusing primarily in the island-state of Grenada. The study is based upon the author's detailed study of Pentecostal communities in that island-state as well as her own background in Barbados. The study traces the development of Pentecostal religious communities from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan Methodist movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-56114-5
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9781137561145
• ISBN-10: 1137561149
• Artikelnr.: 44769940

Autorenporträt

Paula L. Aymer is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, USA. Her research focuses on Caribbean labor migration patterns and Caribbean family arrangements, which are topics covered in her book Uprooted Women Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean (1997) and more recent journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Christianizing the West Indies/Caribbean -A Socio-Historical Overview.- 2 Who is Worthy to Serve? The Call to Evangelical Ministry.- 3 Return of the Evangelicals: Pentecostal Revival Meetings.- 4 The Caribbean Religious Environment: The Twentieth Century.- 5 Baptism, Gender and Family Redefined in Caribbean Pentecostalism.- 6 The Evangelical Gospel: Its Socio-Religious Influences in the Caribbean.