No one across the vast world, truly knows from where the Spiritual/Shouter Baptists of Trinidad and Tobago originated from. Some say that the origins of this unique religion, developed among the African slaves, sometime during the early 19th Century. Throughout the entirity of the Caribbean, this religion can be found under many, many various and each unique and different names. But the name Spiritual/Shouter Baptist, is unique to Trinidad and Tobago.

This religion, contains both elemets of Protestant Christianity and many African rituals and beliefs. Caribbean wise, this religion is unique to Trinidad and Tobago alone. It is a well known fact to all, that with the exception of the Orisha worshippers, all of the other religions cultivated and melded together in Trinidad and Tobago, were brought here by either European colonisers and/or Indian/Chinese Indentured Labourers.

The name Shouter, originally means, that when the Baptists get into the Spirit and begin to clap and shout as the case may be, they make a heralded noise that either draws or repulses those around them, especially during religious meetings or open air services, with the general public being witnesses. However, Shouter is seen as a derogatory term, by many modern day Baptists on the island, seeing as it was first originally imposed upon them by the mainstream at that time British Government.