Article: Nation Dance: Religions, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean.(Book Review)

Nation Dance: Religions, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Edited by Patrick Taylor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xii + 220 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Nation Dance is a collection of essays exploring the interconnectedness of spirituality, identity formation, and social and political processes in the Caribbean. The title, Nation Dance, is meant to invoke Kamu Braithwaite's use of the term "nation language" to describe the creolized languages of the Caribbean, which emerged from the interplay of the various languages that came together in the Caribbean environment. Thus "Nation Dance" is a metaphor for the meeting of multiple religious ...

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