Chasing Religion in the Caribbean Ethnographic Journeys from Antigua
Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in
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PETER MARINA
Chasing Religion in the Caribbean
Peter Marina
Chasing Religion in the Caribbean Ethnographic Journeys from Antigua to Trinidad
Peter Marina University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-56099-5 ISBN 978-1-137-56100-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56100-8
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To Mom and Pop, respectively, Elena Perez Lopez Marina and Pedro Carlos Marina, and is written in loving memory of Silvia Lopez Ventura de Perez, aka Gagi.
“FOREWORD
TO THE
CHASE”
Allan Anderson1 has categorized the growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America and the Caribbean as “one of the most remarkable stories in the history of Christianity.” More recently, Anderson noted that while it is difficult to attribute a single place of origin to Pentecostalism, it is clear that Pentecostalism has become global in outlook. By 2010, over 600 million people from all over the world identified themselves as Pentecostal, which amounts to over a quarter of all Christians.2 Most studies of Pentecostalism in the Caribbean were conducted by anthropologists, historians, and Religious Studies scholars. Marina’s study offers a most welcome sociological perspective on Pentecostal leadership and organizations in the English-speaking Caribbean and Haiti. Peter Marina does high-quality research. I say this because I reviewed his last book Getting the Holy Ghost and because our research interests are much the same. In this “Foreword,” I will contextualize Marina’s contributions to the study of Pentecostalism with attention to the research of Allan Anderson, Felicitas D. Goodman, Simon Coleman, Margaret Poloma, Stephen D. Gl
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