Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England (Explorations in Anthropology)

by Nicole Toulis (Author)

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  1997

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  The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged.