Introduction
Caribbean crossroads : historical and theoretical considerations
A brief profile of the Caribbean
Theoretical perspectives on religions in the caribbean
Amerindians and Spanish Catholics in contact
The origins and way of life of indigenous Caribbean people
Amerindian economy and social structure
Amerindian religious beliefs and practices
Catastrophic contact and extermination
Settlement and subjugation
The church and conversion of protection the Amerindians
Early colonial Catholicism
Spanish Catholicism
Caribbean Catholicism
Patronal festivals
Cofradas and cabildos
The institutional church
Marian devotion in the Caribbean
Specific Catholic contexts
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Haiti
For God and nation : Protestantism in the colonial Caribbean
Challenge to Spanish monopoly
Christianity in the Dutch Caribbean
Church of England in the British Caribbean
The nonconformist challenge to Anglican dominance
Christianity and emancipation
Emancipation and disestablishment
Creole African traditions : Santera, Palo Monte, Abaka, vodou, and espiritismo
Santera
Cosmology and ceremonies of Santera
Social history of Santera
Palo Monte
Abaka
Vodou and the struggle for survival
Espiritismo
Afro-Christian faiths
Revival zion and spiritual Baptists
Revival zion
Obeah and Myal
Myal and the native Baptist movement
Kumina and the Myal ethos
The great revival and revival zion
Alexander Bedward, Pentecostalism, and revivalism in the 1900s
Afro-Trinidadian religions
The Orisha tradition of Trinidad
Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad
Mainline and sideline : post-independence mainline
Protestantism and Pentecostalism
A Catholic prelude to Protestantism
The arrival of Protestants in the Spanish Catholic caribbean
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Cuba
Pentecostal and Evangelical churches
PuertoRico
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Haiti
Jamaica
Migration and revitalization : Hinduism, Islam, and Rastafarianism
Hinduism
Islam
Rastafarianism
Conclusion: Legitimation, indigenization, and contextualization
Institutionalization
Caribbean theology
Music, arts, and liturgy
New religious movements
Gender
Caribbean religions in the United States.