Peasants and Religion: A Socioeconomic Study of Dios Olivorio and the Palma Sola Movement in the Dominican Republic

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Psychology Press, 2000 - 774 Seiten
This book examines the relationship between economics, politics and religion through the case of Olivorio Mateo and the religious movement he inspired from 1908 in the Dominican Republic. The authors explore how and why the new religion was formed, and why it was so successful. Comparing this case with other peasant movements, they show ways in which folk religion serves as a response to particular problems which arise in peasant societies during times of stress.
 

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PART I
29
the survival of Olivorismo 192261
123
the revival of Olivorismo 196162
171
Olivorista lore
255
171
304
Popular religion in the Dominican Republic
317
The religion of the conquistadores
333
an AfroEuropan fusion
339
The late nineteenth century
431
Property rights in land
437
Changes in the Southwest
447
The border problem
453
Surveying the land
460
the crisis of caudillismo
469
War and occupation
475
economic change politics and Palma Sola
493

Other expressions of popular religion in the Dominican Republic
353
253
376
Rural prophets in the Dominican Republic
377
Economic and political changes in the San Juan Valley
383
the early years
390
In the doldrums
398
The creation of a trade pattern
404
the rise of the terrenos comuneros
417
the rise of a peasantry
425
official religion and ideology
560
Olivorismo
603
Conclusions
670
Epilogue 196390
689
Some other actors
702
References
721
Index
759
560
768
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