Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 2005
Rastafari began in Jamaica in the 1930s and has since spread to many other countries. As it sprea... more Rastafari began in Jamaica in the 1930s and has since spread to many other countries. As it spread it drew on local sources and traditions to develop in distinctive new ways. Though most scholarship on Rastafari deals specifically with Jamaican forms of the religion, it often does so without recognizing the variety of local histories and forms that the movement actually takes. Consequently there has been an ongo-ing trend for Jamaican Rastafari to be normative for the movement as a whole, thus homogenizing what is really a diverse movement. This arti-cle explores the history and sources for a local form of Rastafari, the Dreads, in the eastern Caribbean island of Dominca. Particular attention is paid to how the Dreads formed, what their relationship with other, more normative, forms of Rastafari has been, and how they continue to negotiate a separate identity for themselves within the movement.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1998
Introduction to Rastafarian Phenomenon, N. Samuel Murrell. Part 1 Ideology and the Cultural Conte... more Introduction to Rastafarian Phenomenon, N. Samuel Murrell. Part 1 Ideology and the Cultural Context: Dread "I" In a Babylon - Ideological Resistance and Cultural Revitalization, Ennis B. Edmonds Rastafari - a Psychology of Blackness and Somebodiness, Clinton Hutton and N. Samuel Murrell Rastafari and the Exorcism of the Ideology of Racism and Classism in Jamaica, Barry Chevannes Gender and Family Relations in Rastafari - a Personal Perspective, Maureen Rowe Rasta Woman as Rebel, Imani M. Tafari-Ama The Epistemological Significance of "I-an-I" as a Response to Quashie and Anancyism in Jamaican Culture, Adrian Anthony McFarlane. Part 2 Roots and Historical Impact: African Dimensions of Jamaican Rastafarian Movement, Neil J. Savishinsky Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians, Continuity and Discontinuity, Rupert Lewis Who is Haile Selassie? His Imperial Magesty on Rasta Voices, Sister Eleanor Wint and Members of the Nyabingi Order The Rasta-Selassie-Ethiopian Connections, Clinton Chisholm Chanting Down Babylon Outernational - the Rise of Rastafari in Europe , the Caribbean and the Pacific, Frank van Dijk Chanting Down Babylon in the Belly of the Beast - the Rastafari Movement in Metropolitan USA, Randal L. Hepner. Part 3 Back-O-Wall to Hollywood, the Rasta Revolution Through the Arts: From Burru Drums to Regae Ridims - the Evolution of Rasta Music, Verena Reckord Bob Marley - Rasta Warrior, Roger Steffens Chanting Change Around the World Through Rasta Ridim and Art, William David Spencer Towering Babble and Glimpses of Zion - Some Recent Depictions of Rastafari in Cinema, Kevin Aylmer. Part 4 Religion - Livity, Hermeneutics and Theology: Discourse on Rastafarian Reality, Hon. Rex Nettleford The Black Biblical Hermeneutics of Rastafari, N. Samuel Murrell and Lewin Williams The Structure and Ethos of Rastafari, Ennis B. Edmonds The First Chant - Leonard Howell's Promised Key, with Commentary by William David Spencer Rastafari's Messianic Ideology and Caribbean Theology of Liberation, N. Samuel Murrell and Burchell K Taylor. Appendices: Emissaries of Rastafari - an Interview with Professor Leonard Barrett, Indego Bethes et al Who is Who in Rasta Academy - For Starters, a Lit Review in Honour of Leonard Barrett.
This article compares the way in which three religious groups on the Caribbean island of Dominica... more This article compares the way in which three religious groups on the Caribbean island of Dominica grapple with an "insignificant" event. It is the very "insignificance" of the issue that makes possible the larger goals of the article: to provide an example of how religious groups construct and maintain themselves through "insignificant" practices, and to use theoretical structures to elicit the final significance of these "insignificant" practices. Dominica is a small (777 square kilometers) island-nation (population 80,000) in the eastern Caribbean. 1 Though virtually all aspects of Dominican life since conquest have been shaped partly by global processes (e.g., trade flows, commodity prices, military allegiances, the world wars, migration patterns, the tourism industry), those living day to day in villages have typically viewed these global processes äs either opaque or uncontrollable. 2 In 1994, however, the people of Dominica were forced to respond to a major regional crisis: the Situation in Haiti. At that time, Haiti's elected Aristide government was still in exile, and no progress had been made in removing the military Junta that controlled Haiti. Haitian refugees were fleeing to the US and surrounding nations in numbers considered too large to absorb, yet the Situation in Haiti was so poor and dangerous for the refugees that it was impossible to repatriate them. Finally, the United States and the United Nations arranged with several Caribbean nations to set up temporary refugee camps for Haitians who fled. The government of Dominica agreed in principle to receive refugees, and immediately Dominicans began voicing concerns. The refugee question came up on the streets, in ad hoc discussions, in the home and at religious ceremonies. People began to ask, Should Dominica accept 1 Most of the field research for this article was done from January through August 1994. Some data is drawn from three weeks of field research in 1992. A Hobart and William Smith Colleges Faculty Research Grant enabled me to return to Dominica for two weeks of follow-up research in 2000. Data from Jamaica was collected during research in June 2001.
... I-sight: The world of Rastafari : an interpretive sociological account of Rastafarian ethics.... more ... I-sight: The world of Rastafari : an interpretive sociological account of Rastafarian ethics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xviii, 398 p. SUBJECT(S): Rastafarian ethics; Rastafarian poetry; Rastafari movement; History and criticism. ...
Franciscans were still engaged in missionary work in the nineteenth century owing to the ineffect... more Franciscans were still engaged in missionary work in the nineteenth century owing to the ineffective results of earlier attempts. Of special interest are editor René Millar’s essay on popular religion and the model of sanctity, Karin Pereira’s article on the education of the indigenous, and Juan G. Muñoz’s essay on the benefactors who established the chantries of the convent of San Antonio in Malloa, a rural area in central Chile.
The Birth of a Nation was one of the most important films of all time, both for its technical and... more The Birth of a Nation was one of the most important films of all time, both for its technical and aesthetic achievements and for its enduring legacy of racism. This paper uses Bruce Lincoln's approach to myth as a form of discourse and Robert Bellah's notion of civil religion to show how Birth might be understood as a mythic component of American civil religion. From this perspective, Birth serves as a paradigmatic story of American origins rooted in ideas of white supremacy. At the end of the article Oscar Micheaux's work, Within our Gates, is used to briefly demonstrate filmic strategies for countering Birth as myth.
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 2005
Rastafari began in Jamaica in the 1930s and has since spread to many other countries. As it sprea... more Rastafari began in Jamaica in the 1930s and has since spread to many other countries. As it spread it drew on local sources and traditions to develop in distinctive new ways. Though most scholarship on Rastafari deals specifically with Jamaican forms of the religion, it often does so without recognizing the variety of local histories and forms that the movement actually takes. Consequently there has been an ongo-ing trend for Jamaican Rastafari to be normative for the movement as a whole, thus homogenizing what is really a diverse movement. This arti-cle explores the history and sources for a local form of Rastafari, the Dreads, in the eastern Caribbean island of Dominca. Particular attention is paid to how the Dreads formed, what their relationship with other, more normative, forms of Rastafari has been, and how they continue to negotiate a separate identity for themselves within the movement.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1998
Introduction to Rastafarian Phenomenon, N. Samuel Murrell. Part 1 Ideology and the Cultural Conte... more Introduction to Rastafarian Phenomenon, N. Samuel Murrell. Part 1 Ideology and the Cultural Context: Dread "I" In a Babylon - Ideological Resistance and Cultural Revitalization, Ennis B. Edmonds Rastafari - a Psychology of Blackness and Somebodiness, Clinton Hutton and N. Samuel Murrell Rastafari and the Exorcism of the Ideology of Racism and Classism in Jamaica, Barry Chevannes Gender and Family Relations in Rastafari - a Personal Perspective, Maureen Rowe Rasta Woman as Rebel, Imani M. Tafari-Ama The Epistemological Significance of "I-an-I" as a Response to Quashie and Anancyism in Jamaican Culture, Adrian Anthony McFarlane. Part 2 Roots and Historical Impact: African Dimensions of Jamaican Rastafarian Movement, Neil J. Savishinsky Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians, Continuity and Discontinuity, Rupert Lewis Who is Haile Selassie? His Imperial Magesty on Rasta Voices, Sister Eleanor Wint and Members of the Nyabingi Order The Rasta-Selassie-Ethiopian Connections, Clinton Chisholm Chanting Down Babylon Outernational - the Rise of Rastafari in Europe , the Caribbean and the Pacific, Frank van Dijk Chanting Down Babylon in the Belly of the Beast - the Rastafari Movement in Metropolitan USA, Randal L. Hepner. Part 3 Back-O-Wall to Hollywood, the Rasta Revolution Through the Arts: From Burru Drums to Regae Ridims - the Evolution of Rasta Music, Verena Reckord Bob Marley - Rasta Warrior, Roger Steffens Chanting Change Around the World Through Rasta Ridim and Art, William David Spencer Towering Babble and Glimpses of Zion - Some Recent Depictions of Rastafari in Cinema, Kevin Aylmer. Part 4 Religion - Livity, Hermeneutics and Theology: Discourse on Rastafarian Reality, Hon. Rex Nettleford The Black Biblical Hermeneutics of Rastafari, N. Samuel Murrell and Lewin Williams The Structure and Ethos of Rastafari, Ennis B. Edmonds The First Chant - Leonard Howell's Promised Key, with Commentary by William David Spencer Rastafari's Messianic Ideology and Caribbean Theology of Liberation, N. Samuel Murrell and Burchell K Taylor. Appendices: Emissaries of Rastafari - an Interview with Professor Leonard Barrett, Indego Bethes et al Who is Who in Rasta Academy - For Starters, a Lit Review in Honour of Leonard Barrett.
This article compares the way in which three religious groups on the Caribbean island of Dominica... more This article compares the way in which three religious groups on the Caribbean island of Dominica grapple with an "insignificant" event. It is the very "insignificance" of the issue that makes possible the larger goals of the article: to provide an example of how religious groups construct and maintain themselves through "insignificant" practices, and to use theoretical structures to elicit the final significance of these "insignificant" practices. Dominica is a small (777 square kilometers) island-nation (population 80,000) in the eastern Caribbean. 1 Though virtually all aspects of Dominican life since conquest have been shaped partly by global processes (e.g., trade flows, commodity prices, military allegiances, the world wars, migration patterns, the tourism industry), those living day to day in villages have typically viewed these global processes äs either opaque or uncontrollable. 2 In 1994, however, the people of Dominica were forced to respond to a major regional crisis: the Situation in Haiti. At that time, Haiti's elected Aristide government was still in exile, and no progress had been made in removing the military Junta that controlled Haiti. Haitian refugees were fleeing to the US and surrounding nations in numbers considered too large to absorb, yet the Situation in Haiti was so poor and dangerous for the refugees that it was impossible to repatriate them. Finally, the United States and the United Nations arranged with several Caribbean nations to set up temporary refugee camps for Haitians who fled. The government of Dominica agreed in principle to receive refugees, and immediately Dominicans began voicing concerns. The refugee question came up on the streets, in ad hoc discussions, in the home and at religious ceremonies. People began to ask, Should Dominica accept 1 Most of the field research for this article was done from January through August 1994. Some data is drawn from three weeks of field research in 1992. A Hobart and William Smith Colleges Faculty Research Grant enabled me to return to Dominica for two weeks of follow-up research in 2000. Data from Jamaica was collected during research in June 2001.
... I-sight: The world of Rastafari : an interpretive sociological account of Rastafarian ethics.... more ... I-sight: The world of Rastafari : an interpretive sociological account of Rastafarian ethics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xviii, 398 p. SUBJECT(S): Rastafarian ethics; Rastafarian poetry; Rastafari movement; History and criticism. ...
Franciscans were still engaged in missionary work in the nineteenth century owing to the ineffect... more Franciscans were still engaged in missionary work in the nineteenth century owing to the ineffective results of earlier attempts. Of special interest are editor René Millar’s essay on popular religion and the model of sanctity, Karin Pereira’s article on the education of the indigenous, and Juan G. Muñoz’s essay on the benefactors who established the chantries of the convent of San Antonio in Malloa, a rural area in central Chile.
The Birth of a Nation was one of the most important films of all time, both for its technical and... more The Birth of a Nation was one of the most important films of all time, both for its technical and aesthetic achievements and for its enduring legacy of racism. This paper uses Bruce Lincoln's approach to myth as a form of discourse and Robert Bellah's notion of civil religion to show how Birth might be understood as a mythic component of American civil religion. From this perspective, Birth serves as a paradigmatic story of American origins rooted in ideas of white supremacy. At the end of the article Oscar Micheaux's work, Within our Gates, is used to briefly demonstrate filmic strategies for countering Birth as myth.
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