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Rastafarianism - a religious-cultural movement that began (1930s) in Jamaica. Rastafarians believe that Haile Selassie, also named Ras Tafari, the last emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975), is the Messiah. They tend to reject European culture and ideas and are particularly noted for their use of marijuana. Reggae music is heavily influenced by Rastafarianism. There are some 180,000 Rastafarians


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    The Rastafarians » Read Now

    by Leonard E. Barrett Sr. 308 pgs.

    The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence of the Rastafarians of Jamaica. "Barrett offers the most comprehensive study to date of the Rastafarians." -Bulletin of the Center for the Study of World Religions "The most...
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    Rastafari: Roots and Ideology » Read Now

    by Barry Chevannes. 304 pgs.

    ...Studies in The Hague and the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship. Professor Chevannes has published numerous articles on Rastafarianism and is the editor of Rastafari and...
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    Reggae, Rastafari and the Rhetoric of Social Control » Read Now

    by Barry T. Bays III, P. Renee Foster, Stephen A. King. 173 pgs.

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    Stephen A. King is associate professor of speech communication at Delta State University.
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    Ethnicity, Law, and Human Rights: The English Experience (Chap. 9 "Rastafarians: Confrontations concerning Dreadlocks and Cannabis") » Read Now

    by Sebastian Poulter. 397 pgs.

    Recent world events have demonstrated anew that a majority of modern states do not reflect single nations, rather they are ethnically heterogeneous in character and possess profound religious, linguistic, and cultural divisions. Ethnicity, Law, and Human Rights: The English Experience is the first...
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    The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica ("The Rastafarians" begins on p. 160) » Read Now

    by Nelson W. Keith, Novella Z. Keith. 320 pgs.

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    In 1974, following a successful parliamentary election, Michael Manley and his People's National Party took Jamaica onto a self-proclaimed democratic socialist path. Although the project failed even prior to the subsequent electoral defeat of the PNP in 1980, this short-lived experiment has evoked...
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    Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari » Read Now

    by Velma Pollard. 138 pgs.

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    In Dread Talk Velma Pollard describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how it is distinct both from Creole and Standard English. She demonstrates that dread talk must be understood in terms of Jamaican social history, emphasizing its...
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    Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music of Jamaica (Chap. 7 "Revivalism and Rastafarianism") » Read Now

    by Olive Lewin. 356 pgs.

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    Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of the slaves as a method of communication, as a form of resistance and subversion, as a repository of...
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    When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements ("The Rastafari of Jamaica" begins on p. 135) » Read Now

    by Timothy Miller. 248 pgs.

    ...When Prophets Die SUNY Series in Religious Studies Harold Coward, Editor When Prophets Die The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements Edited by...
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    Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion (Chap. 18 "Transnational Popular Culture and the Global Spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement") » Read Now

    by Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau. 418 pgs.

    In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and illustrated.
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    Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (Chap. 6 "The House that Rasta Built: Church-Building and Fundamentalism among New York Rastafarians") » Read Now

    by R. Stephen Warner, Judith G. Wittner. 409 pgs.

    Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away...
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    Tuning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms: Rastas' Revolutionary Lamentations for Social Change, in Cross Currents » Read Now

    by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell. 17 pgs.

    ...143--55. (35.) Joseph Owens, Dread (Kingston, Jamaica: Montrose Printers /Sangsters Book Stores, 1976), 37. (36.) Darren Middleton, "Poetic Liberation: Rastafarianism...
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    New Trends and Developments in African Religions (Chap. 10 "Religion, Patriarchy, and the Status of Rastafarian Women" and Chap. 11 "Rastafari Perceptions of Self and Symbolism") » Read Now

    by Peter B. Clarke. 316 pgs.

    ...African religions, as well as those religions that derive much of their cosmology, beliefs, and rituals from African religions, are becoming more international in scope and...

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