Comfa Religion and Creole Language in a Caribbean Community

"Kean Gibson examines the Guyanese religion known as "Comfa." Reflecting the socio-cultural history of Guyana, Comfa shows influences of European and Asian cultures and religions in an essentially African framework. Gibson compares the variation exemplified in Comfa with the Guyanese Creole language and challenges the continuum theory of Creole linguistics, which predicts that the Creole language will evolve to become English. Gibson also explores the implications of both forms of social behavior for the notion of identity in a multicultural community."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Editions

2

Pages

244

ISBN

9780791449608

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