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Toward a Decolonial Homiletic : = In Search of a Local Preaching Voice for Trinidad and Tobago.

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Title/Author:	Toward a Decolonial Homiletic :/
Reminder of title:	In Search of a Local Preaching Voice for Trinidad and Tobago.
Author:	Williams, Catherine E.
Description:	1 online resource (247 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Religion. -
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ISBN:	9780355148688

Toward a Decolonial Homiletic : = In Search of a Local Preaching Voice for Trinidad and Tobago.
Williams, Catherine E.

Toward a Decolonial Homiletic :In Search of a Local Preaching Voice for Trinidad and Tobago. - 1 online resource (247 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation seeks to identify a local pulpit speech that may be claimed as such by grassroots or rural communities in the Caribbean, using the nation of Trinidad and Tobago as a case study. This twin island state embraces as its own the calypso, a popular musical genre that originated in the milieu of slavery and flourished in the subsequent period of emancipation by British colonizers. Political calypsos, in particular, have an explicitly proclamatory nature in that they publicly denounce national wrongs and suggest changes that would improve the plight of the oppressed. Since the calypso is claimed as local music, inherent in which are significant elements of public, prophetic speech, this study seeks to examine preaching that happens in working class and grassroots communities to determine whether the rhetorical, localized features of the calypso are to be found in such preaching, which may then be claimed, named, and valued as a local preaching voice or identity. In this analytical comparison, the gospelypso -- a "Christianized" version of the calypso -- is also examined for its rhetorical value. This is an important decolonizing move in a geographic region, which has sought, ever since being declared independent from Great Britain, to come into its own economically, politically, and culturally. There are pedagogical implications for this study. The preaching done in grassroots or minoritized communities continues to attract growing numbers of adherents to the Christian faith, yet such preaching is not typically reflected in homiletics texts, or deemed worthy of serious study. Ultimately this dissertation asks how -- and suggests means by which -- mainstream and non-mainstream preaching in all contexts may be mutually, intentionally instructive in preaching classrooms, learning spaces increasingly occupied by students of color whose already effective preaching voices can be honed rather than dismissed or ignored.

Electronic reproduction.
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2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355148688Subjects--Topical Terms:

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