Rastafari, Social Exclusion and Covid-19 in Ghana
African StudiesRelying on accounts of some members of the Rastafari community, this paper advances a conversation on the Rastafari appreciation of and response to the Coronavirus pandemic in Ghana.
Seth Tweneboah, L. Torsu
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Ganja Struggles: Rastafari and the Contestation for Cannabis Rights in Jamaica
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2021PRECIS:This essay examines the theological and socioeconomic impacts of the creation of the Jamaican marijuana industry on the Rastafari faith in Jamaica and, mainly, how Rastas are navigating the forces of governmental regulation and global capitalist ...
Randy R. Goldson
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Rites, Rights, Rastafari! Statehood and Statecraft in Jamaica, c. 1930–1961
Journal of Social History, 2021:This article focuses on the ways Rastafari in Jamaica practiced statehood and statecraft between the 1930s and early 1960s. At times, as is well known, Rastafari rejected the authority and institutions of the colonial state in Jamaica.
Myles Osborne
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Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2021:This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive.
Monique A. Bedasse
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ESTILO DE VIDA E RESISTÊNCIA CULTURAL: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A COMUNIDADE RASTAFÁRI DO LUBANGO
Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e EducaçãoO presente estudo tem como objectivo analisar o estilo de vida e a resistência cultural da comunidade rastafári residente no Lubango, compreendendo suas crenças, símbolos, práticas e formas de espiritualidade, bem como sua articulação com a história ...
Júlio Marcente Carlos +2 more
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The Politics of Reparations in Rastafari Livity and Reggae
IYARICIn this paper, I explore the role of the Caribbean creative imagination in advancing the Caribbean reparations movement. To support my hypothesis on the role of the arts in reparations, I examine the politics of reparations in reggae music by my ...
Chevy Eugene
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Rastafari Dialectism: The Epistemological Individualism and Conectivism of Rastafari
Caribbean Quarterly, 2002L'A. explore la nature essentiellement dialectique du mouvement rastafari, du point de vue de son orientation en meme temps collective et individualiste. Il soutient que, d'un cote, le rastafarisme est caracterise par une forte consideration pour l'individualite, en raison de son insistance sur liberte radicale de l'individu ; mais, d'un autre cote, le
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“We Should Be Louder”: Rastafari, Amplified Spirituality, and Spacemaking in Shashemene, Ethiopia
EthnomusicologyRastafari who repatriated themselves to Ethiopia in the belief that it is their Promised Land create sacred spaces by amplifying their praises to Haile Selassie through drumming, chanting, and sound systems.
David Aarons
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By the Waters of Babylon: Ethiopian Orthodox Enculturation in a Rastafari Context, 1965–1980
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies:Postcolonial Jamaica provided a surprising new avenue for mission for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. A new religion, Rastafari, refocused its practitioners not only away from England but also sought to chart a cultural course independent of Cold War ...
Sean J. Labat
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Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity
Journal of African Cultural StudiesReggae music, a genre that was created in Jamaica in the late 1960s, has become popular across the globe for promoting positive representations of Ethiopia and Africa due to reggae’s connections with the Rastafari movement.
David Aarons
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