Masked Africanisms
Puerto Rican Pentecostalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20162635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Scandrett‐leatherman (corresponding author), Craig Scandrett-Leatherman |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 160-161 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pneuma (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157007407x178436 |
| OpenAlex | W2003738937 |
| Language | EN |
160 Book Reviews / Pneuma 29 (2007) 131-178 Samuel Cruz, Masked Africanisms: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/ Hunt Publishing Company, 2005). xvii + 102 pp. Samuel Cruz provides a focused review of Pentecostalism in Puerto Rico by highlighting island history, political context, and relationship with other Afro-Caribbean religions. Th ough brief, this ethnographically informed work is concise and stimulating. Puerto Rican Pentecostals categorize African religions as diabolical, but Cruz’s project is to reveal the African continuities of their own religion. Cruz begins with the Azusa origins and quotes Charles Parham, who complained there about a white cultured woman who
Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Puerto rican · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Highly cited | No |
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