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Introduction H.Gossai PART ONE: WHOSE TEXT IS IT ANYWAY? COLONIALISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND HISTORY AS RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS AND TEXTS Dangerous Memories, Underdevelopment and The Bible in Colonial Caribbean Experience N.S.Murrell Reggae and Rastafari in Salvador, Bahia: The Caribbean Connection in Brazil J.L.DeCosmo The Faith of the People: The Divina Pastora Devotions of Trinidad G.Boodoo Cubans in Babylon: Exodus and Exile M.A.De La Torre PART TWO: DISCOURSE ON SCRIPTURE, CULTURE, AND POLITICAL INTERACTION Understandings and Interpretations of Scriptures in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Jamaica: The Baptists as Case Study H.O.Russell Is This the Word of the Lord? In Search of Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics, the Eastern Caribbean J.Holder Text and the Rhetoric of Change: Bible and Decolonization in Post World War II Caribbean Political Discourse L.R.James Recasting Identity in Ruth and Hindu Indo-Guyanese Women H.Gossai Identity and Subversion in Babylon: 'Strategies for Resisting Against the System' in the Music of Bob Marley and the Wailers J.R.Middleton PART THREE: PLAYING WITH TEXT IN CARIBBEAN CONTEXT, RASTAFARI, HERMENEUTICS, AND THE POLITICS OF LIBERATION Biblical Hermeneutics in Modern Caribbean Experience, Paradigms and Prospects N.Erskine Daughters of Jah: The Impact of Rastafarian Womanhood in the Caribbean, the United States, Britain, and Canada L.Collins Riddim Wise and Scripture Smart: Interview and Interpretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah D.J.N.Middleton Holy Piby: Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist Epic with Commentary N.S.Murrell

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