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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253338903321

Autore

Aymer Paula L

Titolo

Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean : Studies from Grenada and Barbados / / by Paula L. Aymer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-56115-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Religion and sociology

Imperialism

Social history

Sociology of Religion

Religion and Society

Imperialism and Colonialism

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Christianizing the West Indies/Caribbean -A Socio-Historical Overview -- 2 Who is Worthy to Serve? The Call to Evangelical Ministry -- 3 Return of the Evangelicals: Pentecostal Revival Meetings -- 4 The Caribbean Religious Environment: The Twentieth Century -- 5 Baptism, Gender and Family Redefined in Caribbean Pentecostalism -- 6 The Evangelical Gospel: Its Socio-Religious Influences in the Caribbean. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the evangelical Christian worship focusing primarily in the island-state of Grenada. The study is based upon the author’s detailed study of Pentecostal communities in that island-state as well as her own background in Barbados. The study traces the development of Pentecostal religious communities from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan Methodist movement. .