Book
Jamaican religions: a study in variations
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Hogg, Donald.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- History
- Classes
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Ecclesiastical organization
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Ethnographer-4,5
- Analyst
- Martin Malone ; Marlene Martin ; 1975-1976
- Field Date
- summer (3 mos.), 1955 ; summer (4 mos.), 1956
- Coverage Date
- 1644-1956
- Coverage Place
- Orange River, St. Mary Parish, Jamaica; Spanish Town, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica
- 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)
- LCSH
- Jamaica--Religion