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Carmelita's In-Possible Dance: Another style of Christianity in the Capitalist Ridden Caribbean1

Abstract

Two characteristics mark the Caribbean: capitalism and the hegemony of North Atlantic versions of Christianity. The colonization and exploitation of the Caribbean was justified in the name of profit and the dominant North Atlantic renderings of Christ's message. Having been conceived by the joint forces of these worldly and otherworldly regimes of subjugation, both equally brutal, both making unreasonable demands, both contested yet internalized, the Caribbean gave rise to a schizophrenic culture that played the two forces up against each other. By focusing on a Dominican newcomer on the bi-national island Saint Martin & Sint Maarten (SXM), a devout Pentecostal who works as a ...

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