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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... police in particular reacted alertly to the growing presence of Rasta devotees in the inner - city streets of Britain . A puzzling combination of Christian theology , Black power and reggae music appeared to be a recipe for trouble and ...
... police and newspaper reports is less im- portant than the coverage they commanded . They were given virtually the same treatment as Rastas were in the mid - 1970s : criminalized and given form , or structure , by being depicted as a ...
... police's liberal employment of riot tactics needs no expansion . In gearing up , the police ensured that it was equipped to deal with virtually any contingency . Alarms called in the 1970s would not have made much impact ten years later ...
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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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