Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean WorldviewsBarry Chevannes Rutgers University Press, 1998 - 282 páginas Rastafari has been seen as a political organization, a youth movement, and a millenarian cult. This lively collection of papers challenges these categories and offers a "new approach" to the study of Rastafari. Chevannes and his contributors suggest that we can better understand Rastafari-and Caribbean culture, for that matter-by seeing the movement as both a departure from and a continuance of Revivalism, an African-Caribbean folk religion. By linking Rastafari to Revival, we can enrich our understanding of an African-Caribbean worldview, and we can appreciate Rastafari not only as a political force but as a powerful expression of African-Caribbean culture and tradition. Barry Chevannes provides a concise overview of Rastafari and Revivalism and clearly lays out the volume's "new approach." Leading scholars of Rastafari illustrate and develop the theme with chapters on Rastafari as resistance, the origin of the dreadlocks, Rastafari and language, women in African-Caribbean religions and more. With chapters that range from the specific to the general, this volume will be important to specialists of Caribbean religion and the African diaspora and to those with a burgeoning interest in Rastafari. The contributors include Jean Besson, Ellis Cashmore, Barry Chevannes, John P. Homiak, Roland Littlewood, H.U.E Thoden van Velzen, and Wilhelmina van Wetering. |
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... Leonard Howell before the Court . On the very last day of May 1937 , Howell and fourteen others were involved in a riot , sparked by the attempt of outsiders to obstruct their meeting . They received a fine of forty shillings or a ...
... Leonard Howell was called by his followers ( Hill 1983 ; Mansingh and Mansingh 1985 ) , he was beardless , as were the three of his followers whom I interviewed . And according to a Rastafari informant , who attended three or four ...
... Leonard P. Howell and Millenarian Visions in Early Rastafari Religion in Jamaica ' , Epoche , 9 : 30-71 . Hill , Robert ( 1983 ) ' Leonard Howell and Millenarian Visions in Early Rastafari ' , Jamaica Journal , 16 ( 1 ) . Hoetink , H ...
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Introducing the Native Religions of Jamaica | 1 |
New Approach to Rastafari | 39 |
The Baptist Church as a Formal Symbol of Resistance | 46 |
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