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Rastafari in the new millennium : a Rastafari reader
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ISBN: 0815650795 9780815650799 9780815632832 0815632835 Year: 2012 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press,

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In the dawn of the new African Millennium, the Rastafari movement has achieved unheralded growth and visibility since its inception more than eighty years ago. Moving beyond a pure spiritual movement, its aesthetic component has influenced cultures of the Caribbean, the United States, and others across the globe. Locating the Rastafari movement at a literal and figurative crossroad, Barnett sets out to consider the possible paths the movement will chart. Rastafari in the New Millennium covers a wide range of perspectives, focusing not only on the movement's nuanced and complex religious ideology but also on its political philosophy, cosmology, and unique epistemology. Barry Chevannes's essay addresses the concerns of death and repatriation, highlighting the transformative challenges these issues pose to Rastafari. Essays by Ian Boxill, Edward Te Kohu Douglas, Erin C. MacLeod, and Janet L. DeCosmo, among others, offer rich accounts of the globalization of Rastafari from New Zealand to Ethiopia, from Brazil to Nigeria. Drawing on new research and global developments, the contributors, many of whom are leading scholars in the field, reinvigorate the critical dialogue on the current state and future direction of the Rastafari movement.

Ethnicity, law and human rights : the English experience
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ISBN: 0198257732 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,

Chanting down Babylon : the Rastafari reader
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ISBN: 1566395836 1566395844 Year: 1998 Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple Univeresity press,

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This anthology explores Rastafari religion, culture, and politics in Jamaica and other parts of the African diaspora. An Afro-Caribbean religious and cultural movement that sprang from the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1930s, today Rastafari has close to one million adherents. The basic message of Rastafari—the dismantling of all oppressive institutions and the liberation of humankind—even has strong appeal to non-believers who are captivated by reggae music, the lyrics, and the "immortal spirit" of its enormously popular practitioner, Bob Marley. Probing into Rastafari's still evolving belief system, political goals, and cultural expression, the contributors to this volume emphasize the importance of Africana history and the Caribbean context.


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Becoming Rasta : origins of Rastafari identity in Jamaica
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ISBN: 9780814767474 9780814767467 0814767478 081476746X 0814768466 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.Utilizing new conceptual frameworks, Price explores the identity development of Rastafari, demonstrating how shifts in the movement’s identity—from social pariah to exemplar of Blackness—have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.


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Rastafari reasoning and the Rastawoman : gender constructions in the shaping of Rastafari livity
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ISBN: 149855055X 0739175742 9780739175743 1306573408 9781306573405 9780739175736 0739175734 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books,

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Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman: Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race intersected in the shaping of a liberation movement propelled by conscious contact with an African spiritual ethos in the Caribbean. Countering the predominant static view of Rastafari women, Jeanne Christensen restores agency to the RastaWoman's subversive participation in the ritual known as Reasoning. With its powerful,

Rastafari : Roots and Ideology
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ISBN: 0815603940 9780815603948 081562638X 9780815626381 0815602960 9780815602965 976640013X Year: 1994 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

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The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and ethnographic approach that seeks to correct several misconceptions in existing literature-the true origin of dreadlocks for instance. It will interest religion scholars, historians, scholars of Black studies, and a general audience interested in the movement and how Rastafarians settled in other countries.

All change at work? : British employment relations 1980-1998, portrayed by the workplace industrial relations survey series
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ISBN: 0415206359 0415206340 1280317515 1134625146 0203459385 9780203459386 9780415206341 9780415206358 9781134624966 1134624964 041583189X 0203481658 9781134625147 9781134625093 113462509X 9781134625130 1134625138 1134625030 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

Dread Jesus
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ISBN: 0281051011 9780281051014 Year: 1999 Publisher: London: SPCK,

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