Research Catalog

Title

The shaping of the West Indian church, 1492-1962 / Arthur Charles Dayfoot.

Author

Dayfoot, Arthur Charles.

Publication

Barbados : The Press University of the West Indies ; Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 1999.

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Details

Description

xvii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1492-1962
• Protestant churches > West Indies, British > History
• Protestant churches > Caribbean, English-speaking > History
• Protestant churches
• Christentum
• Protestantse kerken
• West Indies, British > Church history
• Caribbean, English-speaking > Church history
• English-speaking Caribbean Area
• West Indies > British West Indies
• Anglophone Karibik

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-329) and indexes.

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.

ISBN

• 0813016266
• 9780813016269
• 976640061X
• 9789766400613

LCCN

98017620

OCLC

• ocm38886351
• 38886351
• SCSB-862094

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library