Diane J. Austin-Broos

Broschiertes Buch

Jamaica Genesis

Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

Beschreibung

Examines how Pentecostalism has managed to achieve such ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominantly African descent. This book argues that it has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central themes in Jamaican religious life.

Autor

Diane Austin-Broos is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Sydney and the author of Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Order, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780226032863
• ISBN-10: 0226032868
• Artikelnr.: 21845190