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Believing identity : Pentecostalism and the mediation of Jamaican ethnicity and gender in England / Nicole Rodriguez Toulis.

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The 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 co...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Toulis, Nicole Rodriguez (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Explorations in anthropology.
Subjects:
Pentecostalism > Great Britain > Case studies.
Jamaicans > Great Britain > Ethnic identity > Case studies.
Jamaicans > Great Britain > Religion > Case studies.
Women, Black > Great Britain > Ethnic identity > Case studies.
Women, Black > Religious life > Great Britain > Case studies.
Black people > Great Britain > Ethnic identity > Case studies.
Black people > Great Britain > Religion > Case studies.
Great Britain > Religious life and customs > Case studies.
Blacks > Ethnic identity.
Blacks > Religion.
Jamaicans > Religion.
Pentecostalism.
Women, Black > Religious life.
Great Britain.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Long time gal me no see you'
  • 1. The Brethren of the King Street New Testament Church of God
  • 2. 'Moving up the King's Highway': African-Caribbean Pentecostalism in Jamaica and England
  • 3. 'Born of The Water, The Spirit and The Blood': The Individual and the Collective
  • 4. 'I may be Black, but we're from the same hand, the hand of God': The Construction and Mediation of Identity
  • 5. Wives, Mothers and Female Saints: Women in the Church.

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