Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England

Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in EnglandThe complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion in this case Pentecostalism cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged. Rather, in the New Testament Church of God, one of Britain's largest African Caribbean churches, the cosmology of

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0825165040

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This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pathfinder Press (NY)