Caribbean Religious History

Edmonds, Ennis B.; González, Michelle A.

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“…There were persons from the tribal areas in Bihar and Bengal, known as 'hill coolies' (Jha 1985: 1). Emigrants were also from Nepal and Afghanistan (Edmonds & Gonzalez, 2010). According to Edmonds & Gonzalez (2010:178), 'a miniature of India and also of Sub-Continent was re-created in Trinidad'.…”

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India and Trinidad & Tobago: Diaspora Building and Diaspora Integration – Implications for Emigration States

Chand

2017

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India had influenced the community life of people of Indian origin in Trinidad & Tobago long before diplomatic relations commenced between the two nations in 1948. This paper is an attempt to provide a historical description of the state-diaspora relations between India and Trinidad & Tobago during and post indentureship. The paper draws from the written accounts by historians, government officials and scholars on the policies applied to the indentureship system, abolition, and bilateral relations between the two nations. Gamlen's (2008) two diaspora mechanisms are employed to demonstrate the statediaspora relations. The major findings indicate that the early Indian migrants developed mechanisms to cultivate a diaspora identity based on their collectively created vision of 'an imagined India'. Additionally, diaspora building and diaspora integration in post indentureship through numerous cultural exchange programs and educational opportunities for IndoTrinidadians and Indian nationals have been top-most in forging diplomatic relations between the two nations. In the final analysis, there is a need for a more in-depth analysis of Gamlen's diaspora mechanisms and the model of emigration state typology and how these can apply to the Indian diasporas in the Caribbean.

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India and Trinidad & Tobago: Diaspora Building and Diaspora Integration – Implications for Emigration States

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2017

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“…Rather than consigning such spiritualties as having been either simply undeveloped or totally irretrievable, historians have increasingly turned to oral histories and other methods to grasp indigenous American and African cosmologies. (Edmonds & Gonzalez, 2010;Gómez, 2017;Murrell, 2010;Thornton, 1998;Frey & Wood, 1998). Followers of highly codified if non-Christian religions existed as well; a growing interest in Jewish communities of the Caribbean and Atlantic has revealed the presence of rabbis (Israel, 2001;Klooster, 2006Klooster, , 2015Klooster, , 2018Seeman, 2007), and Sylviane…”

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Clergy in the early modern Caribbean (ca. 1650–1800)

Brennan

2019

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Recent historical studies of religious life in the early modern Atlantic world have increasingly taken into consideration the slave societies of the Caribbean, a region considered by an earlier generation of scholarship to be overwhelmingly irreligious. New methodological approaches to well‐perused documents have yielded significant insights into the everyday religious experiences of Caribbean inhabitants, notably communities that have often been overlooked for their apparent inability to leave archival traces. Such studies have made important contributions to a broader scholarly conversation about categories of difference in the early modern world, particularly in regard to the momentous change in the era that saw race rather than religion emerge as a primary marker of social identity. A significant portion of the primary source material that historians in this dynamic field have consulted was, unsurprisingly, produced by religious officials like Inquisition officers, episcopal authorities, missionaries (both Protestant and Catholic), ministers, and regular clergy, among others. Because they were historical actors who undoubtedly contributed to this shift and because they also produced documentation relating to it, a comprehensive account of the role of clergy in this era is needed. This article surveys this body of scholarship. It interrogates its approach to religious sources and individual religious leaders and assesses what they have revealed about the spiritual and cultural life of the early modern Caribbean.

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2018

Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions

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Caribbean Religious History

Cited by 33 publications

References 87 publications

India and Trinidad & Tobago: Diaspora Building and Diaspora Integration – Implications for Emigration States

India and Trinidad & Tobago: Diaspora Building and Diaspora Integration – Implications for Emigration States

Clergy in the early modern Caribbean (ca. 1650–1800)

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