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| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Permissions | ix | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part I | Whose Text Is It Anyway? Colonialism, Christianity, and History as Religious Contexts and Texts | |
| 1. | Dangerous Memories, Underdevelopment, and the Bible in Colonial Caribbean Experience | 9 |
| 2. | Reggae and Rastafari in Salvador, Bahia: The Caribbean Connection in Brazil | 37 |
| 3. | The Faith of the People: The Divina Pastora Devotions of Trinidad | 65 |
| 4. | Cubans in Babylon: Exodus and Exile | 73 |
| Part II | Discourse on Scripture, Culture, and Political Interaction | |
| 5. | Understandings and Interpretations of Scripture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica: The Baptists as Case Study | 95 |
| 6. | Is This the Word of the Lord? In Search of Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics, the Eastern Caribbean | 119 |
| 7. | Text and the Rhetoric of Change: Bible and Decolonization in Post-World War II Caribbean Political Discourse | 143 |
| 8. | Recasting Identity in Ruth and Hindu Indo-Guyanese Women | 167 |
| 9. | Identity and Subversion in Babylon: Strategies for "Resisting Against the System" in the Music of Bob Marley and the Wailers | 181 |
| Part III | Playing with Text in the Caribbean Context: Rastafari, Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Liberation | |
| 10. | Biblical Hermeneutics in Modern Caribbean Experience: Paradigms and Prospects | 209 |
| 11. | Daughters of Jah: The Impact of Rastafarian Womanhood in the Caribbean, the United States, Britain, and Canada | 227 |
| 12. | Riddim Wise and Scripture Smart: Interview and Interpretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah | 257 |
| 13. | Holy Piby: Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist Epic with Commentary | 271 |
| Notes on Contributors | 307 | |
| Index | 311 |
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Jak Hopeder
reviewed Religion, culture, and tradition in the Caribbean on January 01, 2008
Religion
This slim volume brings together three lectures given by Brown on the subject of the "Christianisation" of the later Roman Empire. Brown looks at the symbolic systems in use by the Roman elites, conceptions of authority, and the roles of Christian holy men, and challenges the neat and accepted historical narrative of Christianity triumphing over and absorbing a moribund paganism. Rather, he shows a late antique world in which Christians and pagans negotiated a compromise between the new faith and long-standing ways of seeing the world, and often possessed multiple, overlapping world views. That compromise, moreover, was often not worked out merely in terms of religious syncretism, but in terms of power'the Christian holy man derived his power not because he appropriated pagan religious forms, but because of how he presented himself as a parallel of Roman secular authority'the administrator, the paterfamilias.
Brown also cautions against using the rhetoric of philosophers and theologians as a means of assessing the relative power, or lack thereof, of the two major religious groupings. He points out that such groups were elites, often deliberately withdrawn from the concerns of the secular mundus and thus cannot be taken as representative of how the majority of people conceived of their faith.
As erudite and as beautifully written as always, Authority and the Sacred is perhaps not one of Brown's most groundbreaking of books, but it is still well worth the read if one has even the most passing of interests in the subject.
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