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Ye Shall Dream - Patriarch Granville Williams and the Barbados Spiritual Baptists (Paperback)
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Ye Shall Dream - Patriarch Granville Williams and the Barbados Spiritual Baptists (Paperback)
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Loot Price R421
Discovery Miles 4 210
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The Spiritual Baptist Church, thought to be present in the
English-speaking Caribbean from about the late nineteenth century,
has long been a fairly potent force in the daily life of the
islanders, although its effect has varied depending on the island
concerned. Certainly, in Trinidad and St Vincent, the movement has
had considerable visibility over the years; and in those countries,
its evolution and development have seen the movement take a
prestigious place as a respected religious institute in the last
two or three decades. However, the movement only extended to
Barbados in 1957 when a Spiritual Baptist preacher, a Barbadian by
birth, returned to his native island from Trinidad, where he had
been living for several years. The Reverend Granville Williams
established the first Spiritual Baptist Church in Barbados and has
continued to oversee the church's development since its inception.
The Barbados Spiritual Baptist Church is an important example of a
new religious movement that was introduced into the island fifty
years ago and has undergone transformation from a disparaged
religious cult into a settled and accepted denomination. Appearing
at a time when the island was a British colony, the founder
appealed to the masses, who were suffering from material
deprivation, economic hardship and a pervasive sense of
hopelessness about their future. He set out new possibilities for
the black underclass and evoked the idea that Jesus was black and
that blacks had a rightful place in the kingdom of Heaven. Ye Shall
Dream is an insightful, richly illustrated biography of both the
church and its founder, in the context of a Caribbean island
country coming to terms with its post-colonial identity.
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