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Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean

Studies from Grenada and Barbados

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Authors:
  1. Paula L. Aymer

    1. Tufts University, Medford, USA

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  • Provides an account of the foreign missionary movements from the perspective of the Caribbean people
  • Helps answer questions on how missionary movements influences and organized life in Caribbean society
  • Uses case studies to highlight the strength of purpose, the administrative apparatus for the coordination of missionary programs locally and regionally

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Christianizing the West Indies/Caribbean: A Sociohistorical Overview

    • Paula L. Aymer
    Pages 1-41

  3. Who Is Worthy to Serve? The Call to Evangelical Ministry

    • Paula L. Aymer
    Pages 43-70

  4. Return of the Evangelicals: Caribbean Pentecostal Revival Meetings

    • Paula L. Aymer
    Pages 71-100

  5. The Caribbean Religious Environment: The Twentieth Century

    • Paula L. Aymer
    Pages 101-141

  6. Baptism, Gender, and Family Redefined in Caribbean Pentecostalism

    • Paula L. Aymer
    Pages 143-174

  7. The Evangelical Gospel: Its Socioreligious Influences in the Caribbean

    • Paula L. Aymer
    Pages 175-198

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 199-216
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About this book

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.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tufts University, Medford, USA

    Paula L. Aymer

About the author

Paula L. Aymer is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, USA. Her research focuses on Caribbean labor migration patterns and Caribbean family arrangements, which are topics covered in her book Uprooted Women Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean (1997) and more recent journal articles.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean

  • Book Subtitle: Studies from Grenada and Barbados

  • Authors: Paula L. Aymer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56115-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56114-5Published: 30 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56115-2Published: 29 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 216

  • Topics: Sociology of Religion, Religion and Society, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History

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