Book
Jamacian 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, beginning with a lengthy history of the sociocultural context for the development of religious movements. Most of the cults fall along an Afro-Christian continuum, including 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 these cults, and provides detailed descriptions of ceremonies and spirit possession trances, as well detailed information on sorcery (obeah) and magic.
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Martin Malone ; Marlene Martin ; 1975-1976
- Field Date
- summer (3 mos.), 1955 ; summer (4 mos.), 1956
- Coverage Date
- 1955-1956
- Coverage Place
- Orange River, St. Mary Parish and Spanish Town, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica
- Notes
- by Donald W. Hogg
- 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.
- UM67-2981
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-466)
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1964
- LCSH
- Jamaica--Religion