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A Community Ten Miles Away: Iyanolan (Saint Lucian) Visions for Rastafari Communal Living

Nova Religio, 2022
:A connection and a yearning towards a communal and primarily agrarian existence connects the Rastafari the world over. Many Rastafari yearn for a life in direct communication with the earth through agricultural labor in a space created for and by the ...
Joseph Powell
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“Come, ‘Mek’ We Sing King Alpha’s Song in We Home Land”: Rastafari Youths and Young Adults in Ethiopia Speak on Identity, Views on “Foreign,” and Contested Spiritual and Temporal Space in Shashemene, Ethiopia

Journal of Africana Religions
:Based on this article’s early research and more recent interviews conducted in Shashemene and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this article explores the expressions of belonging, resilience, and rejection experienced by the youthful generation of Rastafari ...
A. Merritt
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Rastafari, Social Exclusion and Covid-19 in Ghana

African Studies
Relying 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, 2021
PRECIS: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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“Selassie Is the Chaplain”: Contextualising Rastafari Chaplaincy Provision in the British Armed Forces

CONTEMPORARY MILITARY CHALLENGES
For the first time, the British Army is looking to appoint a Rastafari chaplain to serve within its ranks and to support the disproportionately large number of Rastafari within the British Armed Forces.
Joseph Powell
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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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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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ESTILO DE VIDA E RESISTÊNCIA CULTURAL: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A COMUNIDADE RASTAFÁRI DO LUBANGO

Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação
O 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, Anselmo do Nascimento Pambassangue Vieira, Alice Thovi Dumbo   +2 more
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“We Should Be Louder”: Rastafari, Amplified Spirituality, and Spacemaking in Shashemene, Ethiopia

Ethnomusicology
Rastafari 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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