Religion, Race, and Remembering: Indo-Caribbean Christians in Canada

摘要

In this article, I consider the ways Indo-Caribbean Christian Canadiansnremember and tell stories about their own and their family’s religiousnhistories. Most participants in this study had Hindu ancestors who con-nverted to Christianity during or after the Caribbean experience of inden-ntured labor. Most of the stories I heard identified Africans as the sourcenof the problems that once and still beset the homelands of the families Inencountered. Moreover, many of the people I interviewed told generallynpositive stories about the period during which they or their relatives werenobjects of British imperial power and the Christian missionary project sonclosely associated with British geo-political expansion. I suggest that thennarrative patterns I heard regarding both Africans and the British mustnbe understood against the backdrop of the interpenetration of race andnreligion among the Indians I interviewed.