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A
History of Protestant Churches in the West Indies
by Arthur C. Dayfoot
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Against the background of social, cultural and ecclesiastical
influences, this book describes the development of Christian
churches in the English-speaking Caribbean during the entire
colonial era, from 1492 to the time of West Indian independence
from Great Britain in 1962. It focuses especially on the leading
church personalities and ordinary Christians who shaped this
history.
Christianity came to the Caribbean under the auspices of the
Spanish Catholic Church and its religious orders. With
17th-century English colonization came not only Protestantism but
considerable religious diversity--Anglican, Puritan, Quaker, and
Huguenot denominations all arrived. During later decades of
colonial rule, immigrants from India and elsewhere contributed
new religious elements. Tracing this evolution from a
monopolistic state church to pluralism, Arthur Dayfoot explores
all aspects of religious life from the disestablishment of the
Church of England to the varieties of missions to the islands to
issues of tolerance and social justice--especially the clash
between religion and the values of a slave society.
Though written by a committed church member, this work is without
denominational bias and includes analysis of regrettable
traditions as well as those that inspire celebration--a
comprehensive study that integrates church history with a total
view of colonialism in the West Indies.
Arthur C. Dayfoot, a retired minister of the
United Church of Canada in Ontario, served with the Presbyterian
Church in Trinidad and Grenada from 1952 to 1974 and was
principal of St. Andrew's Theological College in Trinidad from
1961 to 1970.
1998. 448
pp. 6 X 9.
18
b&w illustrations, 12 maps, notes, index.
ISBN
0-8130-1626-6
Cloth, $55.00
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An essential
compendium of information on the Christian church as an institutional and social
force in the making of the West Indies . . . [It] promises to be an
indispensable handbook for any further research on religion in the West Indies.
. . . Historians with an interest in New World history in general will have to
include Dayfoot's work as an important reference."--Robert J.
Stewart, Hunter College
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