Barbados Spiritual Baptist and Revivalist Worship under Colonial Surveillance

Record summary

Barbadian revivalist and Spiritual Baptist practices, including healing, spirit possession, prophetic prayer, and distinctive congregational ceremonies, were recorded and sometimes criticized by colonial and established-church authorities during the early twentieth century. This is a useful comparative lead for tracing how African-Caribbean ritual forms navigated Christian respectability and official suspicion. The relevant evidence is dispersed across newspapers, church reports, and administrative records, and terminology changed over time, making local congregation names and dates important for verification.