Revival Zion

E339135

Revival Zion is a Jamaican Afro-Christian religious movement that blends African spiritual practices with Protestant Christian beliefs and rituals.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Revival Zion canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afro-Christian religious movement
Christian denomination
religious tradition
combinesWith African spiritual practices
Protestant Christian beliefs
Protestant Christian rituals
contrastsWith Pukumina strand of Jamaican Revivalism
countryOfOrigin Jamaica
developedFrom Great Revival of 1860–1861 in Jamaica
emergedInCentury 19th century
emphasizes Holy Spirit experience
biblical authority
healing and deliverance
hasBelief belief in protective spirits
belief in spiritual healing
veneration of angels
veneration of biblical prophets
hasClericalRole leader called mother
leader called shepherd
hasCulturalRoots African diaspora religions
Jamaican folk religion
hasGeographicSpread Caribbean diaspora communities
North American Jamaican communities
United Kingdom Jamaican communities
hasMusicStyle call-and-response singing
revival hymns
hasOrientation Zion strand of Jamaican Revivalism
hasPlaceOfWorship revival yard
hasPractice drumming
healing rituals
prophecy
ring dances
spirit possession
trance
hasRitualObject candles
colored flags
water for purification
hasTheologicalOrientation Protestant Christianity
influencedBy African-derived cosmologies
Baptists
surface form: Baptist Christianity

Methodism
isDistinctFrom Pocomania
isPartOf Jamaican Revivalism
languageOfWorship English
Jamaican Patois
religiousFamily Christianity
usesSacredText Bible

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Myal associatedWith Revival Zion
Pocomania sharesOriginWith Revival Zion
Pocomania contrastedWith Revival Zion