This well-research book investigates the comprehensive awareness of the survivability and thriving in contemporary arts and sciences of West Afrakan cultural heritage. Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies is an exceptional analytical contribution to the body of Caribbean Studies literature on the perseverance of ancestral sacred life practices of West Afrakan spirituality, culture, and heritage that still remain, and are to be included, within the annals of historical cultural legacy research.

Chenzira Davis-Kahina, Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Through this landmark study of African involuntary presence and mission history in the Danish West Indies, Gregory Carter theorizes built environments, quotidian activities and spaces, and cultural performance and soundscapes as nodal sites of African heritage spirituality and religion. This critical intervention in Africana religious studies transforms how scholars can conceive of, access, and study the spiritual consciousness and lived religion of African-descended people in the Caribbean and the Americas.

Dianne M. Stewart, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Emory University, USA