Marchin' the Pilgrims Home - Leadership and Decision-Making in an Afro-Caribbean Faith

?Glazier's study of Spiritual Baptists on Trinidad is welcome. He accounts for religous vitality and innovation in terms of leaders' decision-making. He argues that ritual syncretism takes an unusual form among Spiritual Baptists; that solidarity is achieved despite a lack of consensus or ritual uniformity; that leaders' activities as entrepreneurs and as interpreters of experience, not as charismatic figures shape the church; that the church/sect/cult typology simply does not apply to Caribbean religion. ... Appropriate for libraries serving upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.?-Choice

About the author

STEPHEN D. GLAZIER is Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen D. Glazier, Glazier Stephen D.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.1983
• EAN: 9780313234644
• ISBN: 978-0-313-23464-4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / Baptist, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago, Baptist Churches