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Embodied Worship in a Haitian Protestant Church in the Bahamas: Religious Habitus Among Bahamians of Haitian Descent

By

Bertin M. Louis, Jr.

Bertin M. Louis, Jr.

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478013112-009

Published:

August 2021

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Romain

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Le protestantisme dans la société haïtienne: Contribution à l’étude sociologique d’une religion

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Port-au-Prince

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Henri Deschamps

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.

Figures & Tables

Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas

Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas

Edited by

Duke University Press

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478013112

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ISBN electronic:

978-1-4780-1311-2

Publication date:

2021

References

Alexander

,

M. Jacqui

.

1997

. “

Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy

.” In

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

, edited by

Alexander

M. Jacqui

and

Mohanty

Chandra Talpade

,

63

–

100

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Austin-Broos

,

Diane

.

1997

.

Jamaican Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Belton

,

Kristy A.

2010

. “

Arendt’s Children in the Bahamian Context: The Children of Migrants without Status

.”

International Journal of Bahamian Studies

16

:

35

–

50

.

Bourdieu

,

Pierre

.

1977

.

Outline of a Theory of Practice

.

Cambridge

:

Cambridge University Press

.

Bourdieu

,

Pierre

.

1991

.

Language and Symbolic Power

.

Cambridge, UK

:

Polity

.

Brusco

,

Elizabeth E.

1995

.

The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia

.

Austin

:

University of Texas Press

.

Butler

,

Melvin

.

2002

. “

‘Nou Kwe nan Sentespri’ (We Believe in the Holy Spirit): Music, Ecstasy and Identity in Haitian Pentecostal Worship

.”

Black Music Research Journal

22

(

1

):

85

–

125

.

Chong

,

Kelly H.

2015

. “

Feminine Habitus: Rhetoric and Rituals of Conversion and Commitment among Contemporary South Korean Evangelical Women

.” In

The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

, edited by

Coleman

Simon

and

Hackett

Rosalind I. J.

,

109

–

128

.

New York

:

New York University Press

.

College of the Bahamas

.

2005

.

Haitian Migrants in the Bahamas: A Report for the International Organization for Migration

.

New Providence, Bahamas

:

International Organization for Migration

. Accessed April 30, 2009,

http://www.iom.int/jahia/webdav/site/myjahi-asite/shared/shared/mainsite/published_docs/books/Haitian_Migrants_Report.pdf

.

Collinwood

,

Dean W.

“

The Bahamas in Social Transition

.” In

Modern Bahamian Society

, edited by

Collinwood

Dean W.

and

Dodge

Steve

,

3

–

26

.

Parkersburg, IA

:

Caribbean Books

.

Craton

,

Michael

, and

Saunders

Gail

.

1998

.

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People

. Vol.

2

:

From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century

.

Athens

:

University of Georgia Press

.

Houtart

,

François

, and

Rémy

Anselme

.

1997

.

Les référents culturels à Port-au-Prince

.

Port-au-Prince

:

CRESFED (Centre de Recherche et de Formation Economique et Sociale pour le Développement)

.

Johnson

,

Howard

.

1991

.

The Bahamas in Slavery and Freedom

.

Kingston, Jamaica

:

Ian Randle

.

Louis

,

Bertin M.

Jr

2014

.

My Soul Is in Haiti: Protestantism in the Haitian Diaspora of the Bahamas

.

New York

:

New York University Press

.

Mahmood

,

Saba

.

2001

. “

Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of salāt

.”

American Ethnologist

28

(

4

):

827

–

853

.

Marshall

,

Dawn

.

1979

. “

The Haitian Problem”: Illegal Migration to the Bahamas

.

Kingston, Jamaica

:

Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies

.

Martinez

,

Annette

.

2015

. “

Discriminatory Migration Policies in the Caribbean

.”

Presentation for the Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights Conference

,

Knoxville, TN

, September 27, 2015.

Mellor

,

Phillip A.

, and

Shilling

Chris

.

2015

. “

The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory

.” In

The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion

, edited by

Turner

Bryan S.

,

201

–

220

.

Chichester, UK

:

Wiley-Blackwell

.

Perry

,

Charmaine

.

2017

. “

‘It’s Better in the Bahamas’: The Stigma of Being Haitian, Citizenship and Identity Choices among Second-Generation Haitians in the Bahamas

.”

PhD diss.

,

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

.

Rey

,

Terry

, and

Stepick

Alex

.

2013

.

Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami

.

New York

:

New York University Press

.

Romain

,

Charles-Poisset

.

1986

.

Le protestantisme dans la société haïtienne: Contribution à l’étude sociologique d’une religion

.

Port-au-Prince

:

Henri Deschamps

.

Woodson

,

Drexel G.

, and

Baro

A. Mamadou

.

1997

.

A Baseline Study of Livelihood Security in the Department of the Artibonite, Center, North, Northeast, and West, Republic of Haiti

.

Tucson

:

Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona

.