Books in the New World Diasporas series

This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of religion in the Caribbean by analysing the ways ecstatic forms of worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship, have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the context of modernity.

An examination of why Afro-Bahian people are a marginalized racial group despite the fact that Bahia has a majority black population.