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Sanneh, Lamin
Professor of History and D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity, Yale University
Carpenter, Joel A.
Provost and Professor of History, Calvin College
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517728-2 doi:10.1093/0195177282.003.0002 |
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A Study of World Christianity Focusing on the U.S. Virgin Islands
This chapter examines new Christian literary and musical styles arising in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the eastern Caribbean more generally. The islands’ struggles with colonialism, slavery, freedom, migration, and dependency have provoked a gospel response in drama, music, and preaching. These new expressions depict Jesus as a person of color and the Christian as a radical soldier, a gospel music knight errant armed with Bible, drums, and guitar. A new Christian people’s idiom is emerging at a global crossroads.
Keywords: Caribbean, Christianity, colonialism, drama, dependency, gospel music, slavery, U.S. Virgin Islands ,
doi:10.1093/0195177282.003.0002
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