The Religious Landscape of Barbados Quakerism
Author(s): John Chenoweth
Year: 2018
Summary
Considering its size and the historical interest it has sparked, remarkably few physical or documentary traces of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") in Barbados survive. This paper combines data from a 2016 reconnaissance of Quaker-related sites on the island with a GIS analysis of these landmarks, high resolution satellite imagery, and a 1675 map of the island in order to consider the relationship of the Quaker community to the Barbadian landscape, both social and physical. The analysis suggests that Quakerism began as socially marginal despite its strong economic base, and was more popular at greater distances from established churches, suggesting that a need for a local religious community contributed to the group’s formation.
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The Religious Landscape of Barbados Quakerism. John Chenoweth. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441767)
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Keywords
General
Caribbean
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Landscape
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Religion
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1650-1750
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 154