Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

This chapter examines the diverse religious landscape of Trinidad and Tobago. The landscape of the regions reflects migrations and transnational religious connections in the country’s colonial and postcolonial history. Moreover, the development of landscape is intertwined with the key concepts of hierarchical power relations, exploitation, othering, emerging civil society, and struggle for rights and political representation. The chapter also considers the value complex of respectability in postslavery Trinidad and Tobago. It discusses the religious practices and beliefs of the colonial laboring population within the region in correlation with politics of mixing, purity, and demarcation in struggles for rights and citizenship.