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    Correcting Misconceptions: The Spiritual Baptist Faith
    Correcting Misconceptions: The Spiritual Baptist Faith
    Correcting Misconceptions: The Spiritual Baptist Faith
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    Correcting Misconceptions: The Spiritual Baptist Faith

    By REV. DR. HAZEL ANN GIBBS DEPEZA

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    The book, a research paper, reveals and analyzes misconceptions about the Spiritual Baptist Faith, an indigenous religious expression of Christianity in Trinidad and Tobago. It highlights the academic bias to the Faith, which is maligned and misunderstood because of its humble beginnings amidst ex-plantation slaves of African descent and its history of persecution and prosecution by the colonial authorities of the early 20th century.The research provided answers to some of the troubling questions about the Faith and served as the source for the book My Faith, Spiritual Baptist Christian by the same author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing Singapore
    Release dateAug 8, 2012
    ISBN9781482898767
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      Correcting Misconceptions - REV. DR. HAZEL ANN GIBBS DEPEZA

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      Copyright © 2014 by REV. DR. HAZEL ANN GIBBS DE PEZA.

      ISBN:      eBook         978-1-4828-9876-7

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      CONTENTS

      DEDICATION

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTION

      WHO OR WHAT ARE THESE SHOUTERS OR SPIRITUAL BAPTISTS AS THEY ARE SOMETIMES CALLED?

      GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THESES

      INDIVIDUAL REVIEWS OF THESES

      CONCLUSION

      EXPRESSION OF THANKS

      END NOTES

      SOURCES OF RESEARCH

      APPENDIX A - Catalogue Listing of Theses in West Indiana Section, Library, U.W. I. St. Augustine (with Comments and Suggestions)

      APPENDIX B - List of Legally Incorporated Organizations of the Spiritual Baptist Faith in Trinidad and Tobago

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      Final Year: BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE

      The University of the West Indies

      ST. AUGUSTINE

      *****   *****   *****

      DEDICATION

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      Herman, without you I would never have traversed the depths and heights of the Spirit which I have. Your love for God and your fellowman, your unwavering devotion to the work of God placed upon you and your unstinting service to mankind have been an inspiration to me. If ever a God-man lived, you were he. That one man could possess all the Gifts of the Spirit and enjoy all the Fruits of the Spirit in one life time is truly evident of the hand of God.

      The thousands of lives you have touched by your preaching, healing and ministering, those persons whose lives you have altered even without meeting them in person, the many whose spiritual attainments you have guided are your testimony. You have always said, ‘Not me, but Christ, for I am but an instrument which He uses to get His work done on earth’. The dictum of Paul in Philippians 1:21 was your motto For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. In keeping of which you never failed to bow below the Cross since for you in Christ pain was sweet and labour was rest. If anyone ever sang truthfully the chorus, many long years, ah working in the field and ah never get weary yet, that person is you.

      The miracle of your life and the manner of your suffering and death will remain always with me, for indeed, in you I have seen God, in man, made manifest. This paper has not done all that it was originally intended to do because its course was changed since you were not there. I know you are pleased with what I have done, though, for many of the issues we discussed arose in the works I have studied.

      My life’s work has begun; I promised you I’ll continue the task. Under guidance of the Holy Spirit I will lift that blood-stained banner of Jesus out of the mud and seek to let those educated fools who sit and read and talk things they know nothing about, know that our Faith is not superstitions and obeah, but like Peter it is the Rock and the gates of hell shall never prevail against it.

      Rest in Peace - although we know you have not gone to rest but to take up your job which was waiting for you. Africans believe in life after death. Live on dearly beloved.

      PREFACE

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      Dr. Selwyn Cudjoe in his lecture Literary Criticism said, when reviewing works the writer should not repeat what is written or say how it should be said, but should, perform a productive function and offer a valuation, a revelation, a new scheme of knowledge… and thus produce a new and distinctive knowledge of our world.¹

      I do not propose to recount the story of years of struggle or the history of much celebrated ‘emancipation’ in 1951 with the repeal of the Shouters’ Prohibition Act. I propose to provide a researcher’s guide to the material available in the theses listed with notes about the accuracy and usefulness of the information found therein. This valuation is intended to perform the productive function, for those seeking information on a much discussed but misinterpreted and misunderstood topic - the Spiritual Baptist Faith - of revealing the distinctive knowledge that, "it is in the Ancestral African religions, with their finely

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