Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews

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Barry Chevannes
Rutgers University Press, 1998 - 282 Seiten

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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Introducing the Native Religions of Jamaica
1
Rastafari
2
Note
19
New Approach to Rastafari
39
Barry Chevannes
75
Institutionalization of the Beard
81
An Assessment
93
Hair Symbolism among the Rastafari 1949Present
101
Ital Garb
151
The Origins of Rasta Talk
160
26
163
31
171
Postscript
173
From Lost Tribe
182
AfricanAmerican Worldviews in the Caribbean
196
Surinamese Creole
211

Institutionalizing New Meanings
115
Conclusion
123
Notes on Oral Tradition and Rasta
129
22
134
Itals Genesis
136
Rasta Foodways
142
Some
233
Afterword
253
38
266
Glossary
272
The Baptist Church as a Formal Symbol of Resistance
280
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Seite 259 - LEIB, 1986. Kumina. the Howellite Church and the Emergence of Rastafarian Traditional Music in Jamaica.

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