Author: Monique A. Bedasse
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.
Jah Kingdom
Author: Monique A. Bedasse
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.
Kingdom Songs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gospel music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gospel music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The War Machines
Author: Danny Hoffman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries.
OUR DAY HAS COME
Author: Brenda Flournoy
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490735364
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Our Day Has Come is an invitation to Black Israel who is a remnant of Ancient Israel, and to the entire Remnants of Israel, and to Christians all over the world to worship JAH, the God of Israel. The book was written to enlighten the descendants of the American slaves of their Divine and Sanctified heritage. It is a Bible-based invitation from the King James version of the Holy Bible. The book highlights: 1) Who is our Creator, the God of Israel, and what is His name? Psalm 68:4 of the King James version of the Holy Bible tells us his name is JAH. 2) Who is JAH's only begotten son and what is his name? The Bible tells us that the son of God was there at the beginning of creation. And through research, His name was not Jesus but Jahshua (which means JAH is salvation); although it is ok to call him Jesus. 3) Who am I, a scorned Black child of the World? 4) Who is Lucifer and the Children of Lucifer? 5) Heaven and Home and last but not least: 6) Where do we go from here?
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490735364
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Our Day Has Come is an invitation to Black Israel who is a remnant of Ancient Israel, and to the entire Remnants of Israel, and to Christians all over the world to worship JAH, the God of Israel. The book was written to enlighten the descendants of the American slaves of their Divine and Sanctified heritage. It is a Bible-based invitation from the King James version of the Holy Bible. The book highlights: 1) Who is our Creator, the God of Israel, and what is His name? Psalm 68:4 of the King James version of the Holy Bible tells us his name is JAH. 2) Who is JAH's only begotten son and what is his name? The Bible tells us that the son of God was there at the beginning of creation. And through research, His name was not Jesus but Jahshua (which means JAH is salvation); although it is ok to call him Jesus. 3) Who am I, a scorned Black child of the World? 4) Who is Lucifer and the Children of Lucifer? 5) Heaven and Home and last but not least: 6) Where do we go from here?
New York Collection of Sacred Music
Author: Isaac Baker Woodbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthems
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthems
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Rastafari
Author: Ennis Barrington Edmonds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195133765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Traces the history of the Rastafarian movement, discussing the impact it has had on Jamaican society, its successful expansion to North America, the British Isles, and Africa, its role as a dominant cultural force in the world, and other related topics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195133765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Traces the history of the Rastafarian movement, discussing the impact it has had on Jamaican society, its successful expansion to North America, the British Isles, and Africa, its role as a dominant cultural force in the world, and other related topics.
Kingdom of Song
Author: T. M. Bowdish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Dread Jesus
Author: William David Spencer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610972562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Dread Jesus explores the black, dreadlocked Jesus in the teachings of Rastafari. Is Rastafari simply a bizarre Christian cult, destined to fade if the Emporer Haile Selassie never reappears? Or could it become a vibrant Two-Thirds World reform movement, recalling Christianity to its original non-oppressing gospel for all people? Rigorously researched, William David Spencer 's unique and compelling study - which includes exclusive inteviews with major Rastafarian thinkers and close analysis of the lyrics of many reggae songs - will prove genuinely accessible to anyone who wishes to learn more about Rastafari and its significance for global Christianity.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610972562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Dread Jesus explores the black, dreadlocked Jesus in the teachings of Rastafari. Is Rastafari simply a bizarre Christian cult, destined to fade if the Emporer Haile Selassie never reappears? Or could it become a vibrant Two-Thirds World reform movement, recalling Christianity to its original non-oppressing gospel for all people? Rigorously researched, William David Spencer 's unique and compelling study - which includes exclusive inteviews with major Rastafarian thinkers and close analysis of the lyrics of many reggae songs - will prove genuinely accessible to anyone who wishes to learn more about Rastafari and its significance for global Christianity.
Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production
Author: Carole Cusack
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004221875
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
This volume fills a lacuna in the academic assessment of new religions by investigating their cultural products (such as music, architecture, food et cetera). Contributions explore the manifold ways in which new religions have contributed to humanity’s creative output.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004221875
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
This volume fills a lacuna in the academic assessment of new religions by investigating their cultural products (such as music, architecture, food et cetera). Contributions explore the manifold ways in which new religions have contributed to humanity’s creative output.
Rastafari and the Arts
Author: Darren J. N. Middleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134625030
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings of the Rasta movement are often overshadowed by Rasta’s association with reggae music, dub, and performance poetry. Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction takes a fresh view of Rasta, considering the relationship between the artistic and religious dimensions of the movement in depth. Middleton’s analysis complements current introductions to Afro-Caribbean religions and offers an engaging example of the role of popular culture in illuminating the beliefs and practices of emerging religions. Recognizing that outsiders as well as insiders have shaped the Rasta movement since its modest beginnings in Jamaica, Middleton includes interviews with members of both groups, including: Ejay Khan, Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, Geoffrey Philp, Asante Amen, Reggae Rajahs, Benjamin Zephaniah, Monica Haim, Blakk Rasta, Rocky Dawuni, and Marvin D. Sterling.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134625030
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings of the Rasta movement are often overshadowed by Rasta’s association with reggae music, dub, and performance poetry. Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction takes a fresh view of Rasta, considering the relationship between the artistic and religious dimensions of the movement in depth. Middleton’s analysis complements current introductions to Afro-Caribbean religions and offers an engaging example of the role of popular culture in illuminating the beliefs and practices of emerging religions. Recognizing that outsiders as well as insiders have shaped the Rasta movement since its modest beginnings in Jamaica, Middleton includes interviews with members of both groups, including: Ejay Khan, Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, Geoffrey Philp, Asante Amen, Reggae Rajahs, Benjamin Zephaniah, Monica Haim, Blakk Rasta, Rocky Dawuni, and Marvin D. Sterling.