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The shaping of the West Indian church, 1492-1962

Author: Arthur Charles Dayfoot
Publisher: Barbados : The Press University of the West Indies ; Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 1999.
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"Against the background of social, cultural and ecclesiastical influences, this book describes the development of Christian churches in the English-speaking Caribbean during the entire colonial era, from 1492 to the time of West Indian independence from Great Britain in 1962. It focuses especially on the leading church personalities and ordinary Christians who shaped this history.".
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Charles Dayfoot
ISBN: 0813016266 9780813016269 976640061X 9789766400613
OCLC Number: 38886351
Description: xvii, 360 p. ; ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. New World and Old World Backgrounds --
3. The Spanish Catholic Monopoly (1492-1655/1797) --
4. Jamaica and Trinidad Under Spanish Rule --
5. The Monopoly Breached (1552-1670) --
6. Seventeenth Century Colonization and the Churches --
7. Sugar, Slavery and the Planters' Church (1655-1823) --
8. The Evangelical Movement and the Slaves (to 1823) --
9. Other Pre-Emancipation Developments (to 1823) --
10. Emancipation and After (1823-1870) --
11. The Late Colonial Period (1870-1962) --
12. Conclusion.
Responsibility: Arthur Charles Dayfoot.

Abstract:

"Against the background of social, cultural and ecclesiastical influences, this book describes the development of Christian churches in the English-speaking Caribbean during the entire colonial era, from 1492 to the time of West Indian independence from Great Britain in 1962. It focuses especially on the leading church personalities and ordinary Christians who shaped this history.".

"Christianity came to the Caribbean under the auspices of the Spanish Catholic Church and its religious orders. With seventeenth-century English colonization came not only Protestantism but considerable religious Diversity - Anglican, Puritan, Quaker, and Huguenot denominations all arrived. During later decades of colonial rule, immigrants from India and elsewhere contributed new religious elements. Tracing this evolution from a monopolistic state church to pluralism, Arthur Charles Dayfoot explores all aspects of religious life from the disestablishment of the Church of England to the varieties of missions to the islands, to issues of tolerance and social justice - especially the clash between religion and the values of a slave society."--BOOK JACKET.

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