Religious Education for Jamaica 2nd Edition builds on a tried and tested approach to develop the personal, learning, and critical thinking skills students need for success in the 21st century.

Reveals the personal experiences of those who adopted the Rastafari religion in the 1950s to 1970s. This title explores the identity development of the religion, demonstrating how shifts in the movement's identity have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and Blackness as central to their concept of self.

New Steps in Religious Education for the Caribbean is a new edition of the popular and highly regarded course, now revised to meet the needs of schools in the Caribbean. Presented in clear double-page spreads, the three books in the series cover the major world and Caribbean faiths and actively encourage pupils to learn about religions and consider the role these play in society today. Activities encourage students to consider the role of religion in establishing individual identity and their role both as participants in a faith group and as stewards within the wider global community. This edition can be used by all teachers of Religious Education in lower secondary schools and can be used with complete confidence by those looking for coverage of the new ROSE syllabus.

Religious Education for Jamaica 2nd Edition builds on a tried and tested approach to develop the personal, learning, and critical thinking skills students need for success in the 21st century. Updated to match the NSC syllabus, the course develops learners' understanding of religious beliefs and spiritual practices, encouraging them to make links through their own lived experiences.

Religious Education for Jamaica 2nd Edition builds on a tried and tested approach to develop the personal, learning, and critical thinking skills students need for success in the 21st century.

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

In this volume a group of eminent African American scholars of religious and theological studies examine the problems and prospects of black scholarship in the theological academy. They assess the role that prominent black scholars have played in transforming the study and teaching of religion and theology, the need for a more thorough-going incorporation of the fruits of black scholarship into the mainstream of the academic study of religion, and the challenges and opportunities of bringing black art, black intellectual thought, and black culture into predominantly white classrooms and institutions.