African-Caribbean Pentecostalism, in both Jamaica and England, is the result of migration processes. The meanings of race, class and status, how they articulate with one another and how they signify the identity of an individual differ in Jamaican and British society. Identity is estimated by the self and on the basis of criteria like race, class, and status. The definition of each criterion and its configuration in the estimation of identity will vary from culture to culture and society to society. Since color-class positioning incorporated values and behavior, the individual could negotiate status and respect by manipulating patterns of conjugal union and household composition, and of religious participation, which were graded along the racial hierarchy from negative Black to positive White. As with the differentiation of society itself and the diversity of institutional forms, the origins of religious differentiation lie in the development of Jamaican Creole society during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.