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Nation Dance addresses the ongiong interplay of diverse spiritual, religious and cultural traditions across the Caribbean from an interdisciplinary perspective. Essays in the volume pay close attention to issues of voice and representaiton, historical and social context, and identity and difference.


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Patrick Taylor is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. He is past Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean and Editor-in-Chief of the Caribbean Religions Project. Author of The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture and Politics and co-editor of Forging Identities and Patterns of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, his articles have appeared in Callaloo, Studies in Religion, and other scholarly journals and books

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press (May 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0253214319
  • ISBN-13: 978-0253214317
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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current cultural politics, traditional fundamentalism, black modernity, nation dance, diasporic histories, diasporic identities, congregational union, diasporic identity, barrio chino, historical rupture
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West Indies, British Guiana, New York, Spiritual Baptist, Kali Mai Puja, Kebra Nagast, North America, West Indian, United States, Works Cited, Catholic Church, Eva Fernandez, Queen of Sheba, Kingdom of God, Oxford University Press, Latin America, Chinese Cubans, Grupo Promotor, New Amsterdam, Song of Songs, Ark of the Covenant, Flora Fong, Johns Hopkins University Press, London Missionary Society, Said's Orientalism
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5.0 out of 5 stars interplay of traditions across Caribbean, February 4, 2008
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Addresses the interplay of diverse spiritual, religious, and cultural traditions across the Caribbean.

Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book's three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora.

The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner's voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.
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