Minds Overwrought by "Religious Orgies": Narratives of African-Jamaican Folk Religion and Mental Illness in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Ethnographies
Language referencing illness and instability in regard to African-Jamaican religions was often used by anthropologists and ethnographers writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It formed part of a wider discourse prevalent at the time that linked folk religions to hysteria and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2021
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 227-249 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jamaica
/ Afro-American syncretism
/ Depiction
/ Insanity
/ Ethnology
/ History 1850-1930
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AX Inter-religious relations BS Traditional African religions KBR Latin America NCC Social ethics TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Revival
B Religion B Anthropology B Alexander Bedward B Jamaica |
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