A REVIVAL worship session is a very active and energetic occasion. It is replete with loud supplications, ardent prayers, fervent preaching, fiery exaltation, personal testimonies, soulful singing, hypnotic drumming, spirited dancing (trumping,.
Revivalism is a folk religion in Jamaica that evolved from the Great Revival of the early 1860s as a syncretism of African spirituality and European religiosity. It is replete with symbolism, which is significantly misunderstood by even some.
Journeying Revival Iconography is the name of an exhibition now on at the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank, a division of the Institute of Jamaica, and situated at Kingston Mall, 12 Ocean Boulevard. On show are the iconic.
ON FRIDAY, December 15, ‘Journeying Revival Iconography’, an exhibition at the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), a division of the Institute of Jamaica, was declared open by Jo-Anne Archibald, principal director.
Today, the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) is recognised as the focal point for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Jamaica by way of a formal designation m.