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Hindu Trinidad : religion, ethnicity and socio-economic change / Steven Vertovec. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1057746~S24
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The Ramayana tradition and socio-religious change in Trinidad, 1917-1990 / Sherry-Ann Singh. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3135074~S24
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Singing with Sai Baba : the politics of revitalization in Trinidad / Morton Klass. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1150294~S24
Caribbean Cosmologies
This section features theological, historical, archival and anthropological works that explore the rich cosmological tapestry of the Caribbean. Strengths include numerous works on Christianity, Obeah, Vodoun, Santeria, Yoruba, Rastafari and other 'syncretic' spiritual traditions.
Key catalogue subject themes: Caribbean Area Religion ; Caribbean Area Religious Life And Customs ; Caribbean Area Civilization African Influences ; Caribbean Area Christianity ; Jamaica Religion ; Haiti Religion.
Caribbean Religions
General
- Afro-Caribbean religions: an introduction to their historical, cultural, and sacred traditions / Nathaniel Samuel Murrell http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3271738~S24
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Religion in Jamaica. Fact sheets on Jamaica / Jamaica Information Service 1961 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2698457~S24
Caribbean Christianities
General
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Street preachers, faith healers, and herb doctors in Jamaica, 1890-1925 / by W.F. Elkins. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2273371~S24
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The Hart sisters : early African Caribbean writers, evangelicals, and radicals / edited and with an introduction by Moira Ferguson. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1142302~S24
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All are equally religious : Christian Jamaicans in the three decades after emancipation / Shirley Gordon. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2152738~S24
Baptists
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Baptists Jamaica [ 3 items ] http://bit.ly/2tJNYm8
- [SH only UK copy] Tyrrell, Alex 1987 Jamaica's Baptist Missionary Millenium: the failure of an ideal (1832-45). http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978658~S24
- [very rare] The Baptist missionaries 1833 A narrative of recent events connected with the Baptist mission in this island: comprising also a sketch of the mission, from its commencement, in 1814, to the end of 1831. Jamaica http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3334011~S24
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Smith of Demerara : martyr-teacher of the slaves / by David Chamberlin ; With a preface by Sydney Olivier. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2798705~S24
Methodists
- Some account of the late missionaries to the West Indies / in two letters from the Rev. Dr. Coke, to the Rev. J. Wesley. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1691078~S24 + http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1686460~S24
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A farther account of the late missionaries to the West Indies / in a letter from the Rev. Dr. Coke, to the Rev. J. Wesley. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1691047~S24
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A history of Methodism in Haiti : 1817-1916 / by Leslie John Griffiths. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2133256~S24
Obeah
General
- Obeah and other powers : the politics of Caribbean religion and healing / Diana Paton & Maarit Forde, editors http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3222785~S24
- Enacting power : the criminalization of Obeah in the anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 / Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3260335~S24
- Theorizing a colonial Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary : sugar and Obeah / Keith Sandiford. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3167367~S24
The Harry Price Collection
- Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a prominent British psychical researcher who investigated esoteric phenomena. His collection was donate to the library following his death in 1948. http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/special-collections/printed-special-collections/hplSeveral items focus on Caribbean magic and obeah.
- [SH only UK copy] Thirsk, Richard 1917 Obeah in the West Indies : Illustrations of negro witchcraft. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2043125~S1
- [SH only UK copy] 1902"Obeah" today in the West Indies. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1932068~S1
- Obeah: witchcraft in the West Indies / By Hesketh J. Bell. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1300224~S24
- Ten, ten, the Bible ten : Obeah in the Bahamas / Timothy McCartney. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2937600~S24
Santeria and Yoruba Traditions
Multi-sited
- Worldview, the orichas, and Santería : Africa to Cuba and beyond / Mercedes Cros Sandoval. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3064623~S24
- Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Creole religions of the Caribbean : an introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2916756~S24
Cuba
- Cuervo Hewitt, Julia, (1988) Aché, presencia africana : tradiciones yoruba-lucumí en la narrativa cubana [ Aché, African presence: Yoruba-Lucumí traditions in Cuban narrative ] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1154684~S24
- Mercedes Cros Sandoval (1975) La religión afrocubana http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1359833~S24
Trinidad
- Keith E. McNeal 2011 Trance and modernity in the southern Caribbean: African and Hindu popular religions in Trinidad and Tobago http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3221144~S24
Haitian Vodoun
Socio-historic
- [rare] The wit and wisdom of the Haytians / By John Bigelow. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1301626~S4
- The Haitian people / by James G. Leyburn http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3335963~S4
- The serpent and the rainbow 1987 Wade Davis. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3267294~S4
- [rare] Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian faith: African and Catholic origins / R. Murray Thomas. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3294157~S24
- [very rare – SH only UK copy] Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
- Other worlds [videorecording] : a voodoo priestess in New York / BBC http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3050130~S1
- Divine horsemen: the living gods of Haiti / by Maya Deren http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1198028~S24
Art, Folklore and Fiction
- The woe shirt : Caribbean folk tales / by Paulé Bartón ; as translated by Howard A. Norman ; with drawings by Norman Laliberté http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1198352~S4
- Donald J. Cosentino, editor In extremis : death and life in twenty-first-century Haitian art http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3275943~S24
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore, memoirs, and other writings / Zora Neale Hurston [features Tell My Horse] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1201225~S24
- Kafou : Haiti, art and Vodou edited by Alex Farquharson and Leah Gordon. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3271748~S24
- All Souls' rising / Madison Smartt Bell. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1017412~S24
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Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / Elizabeth McAlister. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2924449~S24
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Vodou nation : Haitian art music and cultural nationalism / Michael Largey. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2951538~S24
Rastafari
Bibliographies
- The Rastafarian movement : a bibliography / Philosophy and Religion Department, Birmingham Public Libraries. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2132451~S24 The Rastafarian movement : a bibliography : supplement http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2438323~S24
- The Rastafarians in Britain and Jamaica : a bibliography / compiled by John L. Noyce. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2367111
Multi-sited
- Rasta and resistance : from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney / Horace Campbell. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3222803~S24
- Tafari, Ikael. Rastafari in transition : the politics of cultural confrontation in Africa and the Caribbean, 1966-1988 : a Pan-Africanist perspective. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2737180~S24
Jamaica
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Rastafari Movement [11 items] http://bit.ly/2h2acdd
- Rastafari : roots and ideology / Barry Chevannes. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1152094~S24
- Becoming Rasta : origins of Rastafari identity in Jamaica / Charles Price. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3136627~S24
- The Rastafari movement in Kingston, Jamaica / by M.G. Smith, Roy Augier, Rex Nettleford. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3133889~S24
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Rastafari : a way of life / text by Tracy Nicholas ; photos. by Bill Sparrow. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1353589~S24
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RastafarI women : subordination in the midst of liberation theology / Obiagele Lake. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1802988~S24
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Volunteer Ethiopians : African consciousness among the Rastafarians of Jamaica / by Carole D. Yawney. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2418125~S24
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The Rastafarians : a study in Messianic cultism in Jamaica / by Leonard E. Barrett. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1403851~S24
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The Rastafarians : with a new afterword / Leonard E. Barrett. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1775375~S24
Cuba
- Rasta, race and revolution : the emergence and development of the Rastafari movement in socialist Cuba / Katrin Hansing. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3057259~S24
UK
- Between two cultures? : the case of Rastafarianism / Robert Miles. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1417994~S24
- Movement of Jah people / [written by John Plummer, with additional research and material by Derek Bishton and Brian Homer]. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1195518~S24
- One love : history, doctrine and livity / by Jah Bones http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3290849~S4
- Scribe sistren : poems / by Benji. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3090225~S4
Periodicals
- Rasta voice. [ Kingston : Rastafarian Movement Association.] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2167001~S24
- Rasta a modern antique. [Rastafari Movement Association] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2384996~S24
- Rastafari speaks [Laventille, T&T : Rastafari Brethren Organisation.] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2171057~S24
Other Africana New World Cosmologies
Comparative
- Dancing wisdom : embodied knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé / Yvonne Daniel. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2924740~S24
- Afro-Cuban religious arts : popular expressions of cultural inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería / Kristine Juncker. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3292513~S24
- Obeah, Christ and Rastaman : Jamaica and its religion / Ivor Morrish http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1035607~S24
Cuban
- Desarrollos Artísticos, c2007. Cultos afrocubanos [videorecording; Havana, Cuba : Mundo Latino] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3280422~S24
Puerto Rican
- Andrés Isidoro Pérez y Mena 1991 Speaking with the dead : development of Afro-Latin religion among Puerto Ricans in the United States http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1065467~S24
Jamaican
- Three eyes for the journey: African dimensions of the Jamaican religious experience / Dianne M. Stewart. [a womanist theology] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3063802~S24
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Kumina : a field study of cultural resistance in Jamaica / Myrna Dolores Bain. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1586798~S24
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The Nkuyu : spirit messengers of the Kumina [Jamaica] / Maureen Warner Lewis. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3074463~S24
Trinidad
- Littlewood, Roland. Pathology and Identity : Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1093431~S24