Abstract
Revival Zionists – a small spiritist following in Jamaica – describe how their relations with spirits allow them to bring personal spiritual gifts to bear on every day or ‘temporal’ experience. Taking a hint from Kant that ‘time itself does not change but only something which is in time’, the article considers the timely logic of these ‘gifts’. In a social-economic situation characterised by paucity of material resources but plenitude of labour-time, spiritual gifts reappear as a valued ground for a person's reputation. Likewise, we may also see them as one example of an attempt to organise the relationship between homo noumenon and homo temporalis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 406-420 |
| Journal | Ethnos |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 9 Sept 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 27 May 2017 |
Keywords
- Homo noumenon
- Revival Zion
- Kingston
- Jamaica
- Caribbean
- Kant
- Reputation
