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Author Lum, Kenneth Anthony

Title Praising his name in the dance : spirit possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha work in Trinidad, West Indies / Kenneth Anthony Lum
Published Australia : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages)
Series Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1561-2643 ; v. 1
Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean ; v. 1. 1561-2643
Contents Cover; Praising His Name in the Dance: Spirit Possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work in Trinidad, West Indies; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Introduction to the Series; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; PART ONE ETHNOGRAPHIES; Chapter 2 The Spiritual Baptist Faith: Introduction; Chapter 3 The Spiritual Baptist Faith: Beliefs and Rituals; Chapter 4 The Spiritual Baptist Faith: Manifestations; Chapter 5 Orisha Work: Introduction; Chapter 6 Orisha Work: Beliefs; Chapter 7 Orisha Work: Rituals; Chapter 8 Orisha Work: Manifestations; Chapter 9 The Kabalistic Side
PART TWO COMMENTARYChapter 10 The Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work: Histories of Their Populations; Chapter 11 The Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work: Histories; Chapter 12 Manifestation in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work: Exegesis and Comparison; Appendices; Appendix I: Previous Research on Spirit Possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work in Trinidad; Appendix II: Practices Prohibited by the Shouters Prohibition Ordinance; Appendix III: Orisha Songs; Appendix IV: On a Person's Relationship with the Orishas; Appendix V: Pointing on Speech
Appendix VI: On the Kabalistic SpiritsBibliography; Index
Summary The author provides a detailed portrait of the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work, two religions that share a common basis in the traditional religion of the Yoruba in West Africa. Specifically, the author studies the phenomenon of spirit possession, an integral aspect of worship in both religions. In the Spiritual Baptist Faith, a person who is possessed by the Holy Spirit retains his or her own identity, while in Orisha Work, those who are possessed by the orishas (spirits), become the spirits. Both types of possession are based on the Yoruba concept of self in which identity is depende
Notes Rev. version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 1989 issued under the title: Spirit possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha work in Trinidad
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Spiritual Baptists -- Trinidad and Tobago
Orishas -- Trinidad and Tobago
Spirit possession -- Trinidad and Tobago
RELIGION -- Messianic Judaism.
Orishas
Spirit possession
Spiritual Baptists
Possession par les esprits -- Trinité-et-Tobago.
Orisha -- Trinité-et-Tobago.
SUBJECT Trinidad and Tobago -- Religious life and customs
Subject Trinidad and Tobago
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203822661
0203822668
1299697151
9781299697157