Barnett, M: Rastafari in the New Millennium - Hardcover

Barnett, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815632835 ISBN 13: 9780815632832

Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 2012

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Críticas:

Rastafari has undergone a remarkable metamorphosis over the course of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. It has gone from being a social outcast upon whom a great deal of vituperation was heaped to representing a quintessential marker for Caribbean resistance against colonial, social, and religio-cultural mores. This excellent text brings together an impressive cast of scholars who seek to articulate the changing nature of the movement.--Black Theology: An International Journal Rastafari in the New Millennium is a fascinating book, and I recommend it highly to scholars of New Religious Movements and scholars of Rastafari.--Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions

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In the dawn of the new African Millennium, the Rastafari movement has achieved unheralded growth and visibility since its inception more than eighty years ago. Moving beyond a pure spiritual movement, its aesthetic component has influenced cultures of the Caribbean, the United States, and others across the globe. Locating the Rastafari movement at a literal and figurative crossroad, Barnett sets out to consider the possible paths the movement will chart. Rastafari in the New Millennium covers a wide range of perspectives, focusing not only on the movement's nuanced and complex religious ideology but also on its political philosophy, cosmology, and unique epistemology. Barry Chevannes's essay addresses the concerns of death and repatriation, highlighting the transformative challenges these issues pose to Rastafari. Essays by Ian Boxill, Edward Te Kohu Douglas, Erin MacLeod, and Janet L. DeCosmo, among others, offer rich accounts of the globalisation of Rastafari from New Zealand to Ethiopia, from Brazil to Zimbabwe. Drawing on new research and global developments, the contributors, many of whom are leading scholars in the field, reinvigorate the critical dialogue on the current state and future direction of the Rastafari movement.

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• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0815632835
• ISBN 13: 9780815632832
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312