Born Again… and Again and Again

The ritual of Jamaican pentecostalists is examined to show the nature of a communitas that inheres in their congregations. It is argued that this communitas, far from being a force for social change in the believers' lives, is indicative of their subordinate social position. The analysis supports the view that the locus of social change cannot be found in man's capacity to symbolize. This only appears to be the case when symbolic and structural realms of social life are made to form a simple dichotomy. A critical assessment is offered of Victor Turner's concept of communitas, and its use in the analysis of ritual

Communitas · Liminality · Political science · Social change · Social life · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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