Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean

Contributors

Contributors Petronella Breinburg is Head of the Caribbean Centre, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has written articles on Dutch Caribbean culture and has authored collections of Surinamese folktales and fiction writing, including De Winst van het Lakoe spel, Legends of Suriname, and Stories from the Caribbean. Frederick Ivor Case teaches Caribbean Studies and French at New College, University of Toronto. He is the author of The Crisis of Identity: Studies in the Martinican and Guadeloupean Novel and has published numerous articles on Francophone-Caribbean and African literature, religion, and culture. Marı́a Margarita Castro Flores, a researcher with the Centro de Estudios Sobre América in Havana, is pursuing postgraduate studies at El Colegio de Mexico. She is co-author of Movimientos comunitarios en Cuba: Un análisis comparativo and has published articles in the areas of religion, gender, and ethnicity. Barry Chevannes is Dean of Social Science at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is the author of Rastafari: Roots and Ideology and the editor of Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews. Arthur C. Dayfoot, former principal of St. Andrews Theological College in Trinidad , is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada. He is the author of The Shaping of the West Indian Church: 1492–1962. Juanita De Barros teaches at York University in Toronto. She completed a doctorate in History on “public space” in colonial Guyana. Yvonne B. Drakes is founder and Queen Mother Bishop of the Trinity Divine Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto. She is a founding member of the Spiritual Baptist Faith of Canada. Eva Fernandez Bravo was a leading espiritista (spiritualist) in Santiago de Cuba until she passed away in 1997. Laënnec Hurbon is directeur de recherche with the Centre National de la Recherche (CNRS), Paris. He has published numerous books and edited works on Haitian religion, culture, and politics, including Voodoo: Search for Spirit, Dieu dans le vaudou haı̈tien, Comprendre Haı̈ti: Essai sur l’état, la nation, la culture, and Les Transitions démocratiques. He is editor of the journal Chemins Critiques. Abrahim H. Khan is a fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he teaches the philosophy of religion and comparative religion. He is the author of “Salighed” as Happiness? Kierkegaard on the Concept Salighed and has published many articles on Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. 208 Contributors Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He completed a master’s thesis on Indo-Caribbean identity and is currently engaged in research in the area of postcolonial theory. Althea Prince completed a doctorate in Sociology, focusing on the work of C. L. R. James. An essayist, short story writer, and novelist, she is the author of Being Black, Ladies of the Night and Other Stories, How the East Pond Got Its Flowers, and How the Starfish Got to the Sea. Deloris Seiveright is Archbishop Doctor Mother Superior of the Shouters National Evangelical Spiritual Baptist Faith in Toronto and Hamilton. Frank F. Scherer is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He completed a master’s thesis in Anthropology on the Chinese in Cuba and is currently engaged in research on Cuban culture and ideology. Judith Soares is academic coordinator of the Women and Development Unit of the University of the West Indies in Barbados. She completed a doctorate in Political Science on religious fundamentalism and politics in Jamaica and has published articles on related topics. Patrick Taylor teaches Caribbean Studies and Religious Studies in the Division of Humanties at York University in Toronto. He is the author of The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture and Politics and the co-editor of Forging Identities and Patterns of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. ...