Book
Jamaican religions: a study in variations
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Hogg, Donald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of cults and sects popular with the Jamaican working class. It begins with a lengthy history of the sociocultural context for the development of religious movements, most of which are syncretic, falling along what the author describes as an “Afro-Christian continuum.” These include the Pentecostal (or Jesus Only) sect, the Church of God, Myalism, Native Baptism, Bedwardism, Zion Revival, Convince, and Pocomania (the major focus). The author compares the rural and urban forms of the various movements, and provides descriptions of ceremonies and spirit possession trances, as well information on how colonial Christian movements interacted with ideas and practices of [n]obeah[/n], sorcery, and magic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Classes
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jamaicans
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- Ethnographer-4,5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; Marlene Martin ; 1975-1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- summer (3 mos.), 1955 ; summer (4 mos.), 1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1644-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Orange River, St. Mary Parish, Jamaica; Spanish Town, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Donald W. Hogg
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1964
- UM67-2981
- Hogg occasionally uses ghost and spirit interchangeably, but generally they have distinct meanings which correspond to the OCM Categories, 775 for ghosts and 776 for spirits.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-466)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jamaica--Religion