That has to do with the way the Caribbean was missionised: the hotter brand of Christianity gained most converts among the dispossessed, who then re-exported it to Britain.

ECONOMIST: Black Britons finally break into dreary neighbourhoods

There is no doubt that Pentecostalism first took off among the poor and the dispossessed and that it offers some dubious consolations.

ECONOMIST: Pentecostals

Who among the downtrodden and the dispossessed can fail to be stirred by the promise of a world in which all men are equal, and each has what he needs?

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