Author: Empress
Publisher: Empress
ISBN: 1975997824
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Convert to Rastafari 85 Tips, Principles & Teachings to Convert to Rastafari By Empress Copyright © 2017 Empress All rights reserved. Rasta Books on Amazon DEDICATION For all the Men and Women who aspire to live as Rasta, and embrace the livity to the fullest. Jah Rastafari. Table of Contents What is a Rasta? 14 Beliefs of Rastafari (7) 16 Marcus Garvey: Our Prophet (1) 19 Haile Selassie Teachings (6) 21 #6 Haile Selassie in the Bible 24 Haile Selassie Facts Every Rasta Knows (8) 26 “Rasta to Rasta” code (6) 31 Bob Marley Interview: His Beliefs in Jah Rastafari (1) 40 Bob Marley Interview on Rastafari 41 How to Pray as a Rasta (6) 44 Bible stories about Rastafari (3) 55 Rasta Language: Common words & Phrases (10) 83 Ital Rasta Food Laws (8) 87 Lion of Judah Flag Meaning (5) 91 Meaning of Dreadlocks as Rasta (10) 95 Convert to Rastafari (Vow) (9) 102 How to Choose Your Rasta Name (5) 114 A book titled “Convert to Rastafari?” Yes, I am aware that one cannot Convert to Rastafari as Rastafari is not a Religion. I am Tafari, I am aware. However there are many people today who are becoming aware of “the light of Jah,” and seek guidance to live this way of life. Rastafari is a way of life that acknowledges Jah is some very specific, special and spiritual ways. Why must one go to a bald head for guidance on Rastafari? Why learn the livity from someone who is a student of the livity themselves? It is my work as Rasta on the Journey, to provide Jah Rastafari guidance to those who seek it. To embrace Rastafari is a blessing. Convert to Rastafari is my way of sharing this blessing of my faith, with those who want to embrace it too. The more Rastafari minded individuals we have on the earth, the better the world will be. Blessed. Love. What is a Rasta? A Rasta is a person who loves and respects, and is spiritually aware of, the earth, himself, King Selassie I, Jah, and Jah creations. There are some basic beliefs and principles, that every Rasta lives by, that you should be aware of, before you convert to Rastafari. Beliefs of Rastafari (7) #1 Equal Rights and Justice - A Rasta is a person who believes in equal rights and justice for all. #2 Jah/God - A Rasta is a person who knows Jah is always watching all that we say and do. #3 Judgement Day - A Rasta is a person who knows each man and woman will be responsible for his and her own judgement by Jah. #4 To Eat dead flesh is unclean - A Rasta believes the eating of meat/flesh is an unclean act for the body mind and spirit. #5 Recognize the face of Jah - A Rasta knows, King Selassie I is the face of Jah manifested as man. #6 The Babylon System - A Rasta is a person who is aware of the Babylon System, (the lies of the Government,) and its effects on humanity. #7 Respect for nature - A Rasta is a person who has a deep love and respect for all nature, because he knows, Jah is in nature. Marcus Garvey: Our Prophet (1) Marcus Garvey, a man of Jamaican Ancestry... a leader, and a speaker, who brought hope & and inspiration to Millions of formerly.... Give Thanks. Please purchase the paperback version, or the eBook Version on googleplay or amazon.com. More Love.
Convert to Rastafari (How to Convert to Rastafari Livity)
Author: Empress
Publisher: Empress
ISBN: 1975997824
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Convert to Rastafari 85 Tips, Principles & Teachings to Convert to Rastafari By Empress Copyright © 2017 Empress All rights reserved. Rasta Books on Amazon DEDICATION For all the Men and Women who aspire to live as Rasta, and embrace the livity to the fullest. Jah Rastafari. Table of Contents What is a Rasta? 14 Beliefs of Rastafari (7) 16 Marcus Garvey: Our Prophet (1) 19 Haile Selassie Teachings (6) 21 #6 Haile Selassie in the Bible 24 Haile Selassie Facts Every Rasta Knows (8) 26 “Rasta to Rasta” code (6) 31 Bob Marley Interview: His Beliefs in Jah Rastafari (1) 40 Bob Marley Interview on Rastafari 41 How to Pray as a Rasta (6) 44 Bible stories about Rastafari (3) 55 Rasta Language: Common words & Phrases (10) 83 Ital Rasta Food Laws (8) 87 Lion of Judah Flag Meaning (5) 91 Meaning of Dreadlocks as Rasta (10) 95 Convert to Rastafari (Vow) (9) 102 How to Choose Your Rasta Name (5) 114 A book titled “Convert to Rastafari?” Yes, I am aware that one cannot Convert to Rastafari as Rastafari is not a Religion. I am Tafari, I am aware. However there are many people today who are becoming aware of “the light of Jah,” and seek guidance to live this way of life. Rastafari is a way of life that acknowledges Jah is some very specific, special and spiritual ways. Why must one go to a bald head for guidance on Rastafari? Why learn the livity from someone who is a student of the livity themselves? It is my work as Rasta on the Journey, to provide Jah Rastafari guidance to those who seek it. To embrace Rastafari is a blessing. Convert to Rastafari is my way of sharing this blessing of my faith, with those who want to embrace it too. The more Rastafari minded individuals we have on the earth, the better the world will be. Blessed. Love. What is a Rasta? A Rasta is a person who loves and respects, and is spiritually aware of, the earth, himself, King Selassie I, Jah, and Jah creations. There are some basic beliefs and principles, that every Rasta lives by, that you should be aware of, before you convert to Rastafari. Beliefs of Rastafari (7) #1 Equal Rights and Justice - A Rasta is a person who believes in equal rights and justice for all. #2 Jah/God - A Rasta is a person who knows Jah is always watching all that we say and do. #3 Judgement Day - A Rasta is a person who knows each man and woman will be responsible for his and her own judgement by Jah. #4 To Eat dead flesh is unclean - A Rasta believes the eating of meat/flesh is an unclean act for the body mind and spirit. #5 Recognize the face of Jah - A Rasta knows, King Selassie I is the face of Jah manifested as man. #6 The Babylon System - A Rasta is a person who is aware of the Babylon System, (the lies of the Government,) and its effects on humanity. #7 Respect for nature - A Rasta is a person who has a deep love and respect for all nature, because he knows, Jah is in nature. Marcus Garvey: Our Prophet (1) Marcus Garvey, a man of Jamaican Ancestry... a leader, and a speaker, who brought hope & and inspiration to Millions of formerly.... Give Thanks. Please purchase the paperback version, or the eBook Version on googleplay or amazon.com. More Love.
Publisher: Empress
ISBN: 1975997824
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Convert to Rastafari 85 Tips, Principles & Teachings to Convert to Rastafari By Empress Copyright © 2017 Empress All rights reserved. Rasta Books on Amazon DEDICATION For all the Men and Women who aspire to live as Rasta, and embrace the livity to the fullest. Jah Rastafari. Table of Contents What is a Rasta? 14 Beliefs of Rastafari (7) 16 Marcus Garvey: Our Prophet (1) 19 Haile Selassie Teachings (6) 21 #6 Haile Selassie in the Bible 24 Haile Selassie Facts Every Rasta Knows (8) 26 “Rasta to Rasta” code (6) 31 Bob Marley Interview: His Beliefs in Jah Rastafari (1) 40 Bob Marley Interview on Rastafari 41 How to Pray as a Rasta (6) 44 Bible stories about Rastafari (3) 55 Rasta Language: Common words & Phrases (10) 83 Ital Rasta Food Laws (8) 87 Lion of Judah Flag Meaning (5) 91 Meaning of Dreadlocks as Rasta (10) 95 Convert to Rastafari (Vow) (9) 102 How to Choose Your Rasta Name (5) 114 A book titled “Convert to Rastafari?” Yes, I am aware that one cannot Convert to Rastafari as Rastafari is not a Religion. I am Tafari, I am aware. However there are many people today who are becoming aware of “the light of Jah,” and seek guidance to live this way of life. Rastafari is a way of life that acknowledges Jah is some very specific, special and spiritual ways. Why must one go to a bald head for guidance on Rastafari? Why learn the livity from someone who is a student of the livity themselves? It is my work as Rasta on the Journey, to provide Jah Rastafari guidance to those who seek it. To embrace Rastafari is a blessing. Convert to Rastafari is my way of sharing this blessing of my faith, with those who want to embrace it too. The more Rastafari minded individuals we have on the earth, the better the world will be. Blessed. Love. What is a Rasta? A Rasta is a person who loves and respects, and is spiritually aware of, the earth, himself, King Selassie I, Jah, and Jah creations. There are some basic beliefs and principles, that every Rasta lives by, that you should be aware of, before you convert to Rastafari. Beliefs of Rastafari (7) #1 Equal Rights and Justice - A Rasta is a person who believes in equal rights and justice for all. #2 Jah/God - A Rasta is a person who knows Jah is always watching all that we say and do. #3 Judgement Day - A Rasta is a person who knows each man and woman will be responsible for his and her own judgement by Jah. #4 To Eat dead flesh is unclean - A Rasta believes the eating of meat/flesh is an unclean act for the body mind and spirit. #5 Recognize the face of Jah - A Rasta knows, King Selassie I is the face of Jah manifested as man. #6 The Babylon System - A Rasta is a person who is aware of the Babylon System, (the lies of the Government,) and its effects on humanity. #7 Respect for nature - A Rasta is a person who has a deep love and respect for all nature, because he knows, Jah is in nature. Marcus Garvey: Our Prophet (1) Marcus Garvey, a man of Jamaican Ancestry... a leader, and a speaker, who brought hope & and inspiration to Millions of formerly.... Give Thanks. Please purchase the paperback version, or the eBook Version on googleplay or amazon.com. More Love.
Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Ennis Barrington Edmonds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199584524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement, with adherents of Rastafari found in most of the major population centres and outposts of the world. This Very Short Introduction provides a brief account of this widespread but often poorly understood movement, looking at its history, central principles, and practices.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199584524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement, with adherents of Rastafari found in most of the major population centres and outposts of the world. This Very Short Introduction provides a brief account of this widespread but often poorly understood movement, looking at its history, central principles, and practices.
Becoming Rasta
Author: Charles Price
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814767478
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reveals the personal experiences of those who adopted the Rastafari religion in the 1950s to 1970s. This title explores the identity development of the religion, demonstrating how shifts in the movement's identity have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and Blackness as central to their concept of self.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814767478
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reveals the personal experiences of those who adopted the Rastafari religion in the 1950s to 1970s. This title explores the identity development of the religion, demonstrating how shifts in the movement's identity have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and Blackness as central to their concept of self.
A Journey to the Roots of Rastafari
Author: Abba Yahudah
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490733175
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Ethiopia accepted Christianity as her sovereign faith after being a Judaic nation for centuries before Christ. Her political seat being the Throne of David makes this event uniquely significant in that Judaism as a religion or as a nation had no existing empire. By this, we mean that after the destruction of Jerusalem in 588 BC and the dispersion of the Israelites, the Jews, as a nation, were unable to reconstruct an independent state anywhere in the world except for the empire established in Ethiopia. Therefore, Ethiopia represented the only nation to have made such a transition from Judaism to Christianity. When one makes a thorough study of the traditions of the biblical Jewish nation, one will understand that a Jewish nation could not be reestablished without the Throne and seed of King David. Therefore, Israel as a place remains to be the fragmented ruins of a past flourishing Jewish state. The Roman invasion and occupation of Jerusalem created an atmosphere of tension and political unrest that continued and subsequently led to the destruction of this once glorious city, which used to house the Ark of the Covenant. All this occurred before the birth of Christ, who was to be the major element in the events that were to lead to a New Way.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490733175
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Ethiopia accepted Christianity as her sovereign faith after being a Judaic nation for centuries before Christ. Her political seat being the Throne of David makes this event uniquely significant in that Judaism as a religion or as a nation had no existing empire. By this, we mean that after the destruction of Jerusalem in 588 BC and the dispersion of the Israelites, the Jews, as a nation, were unable to reconstruct an independent state anywhere in the world except for the empire established in Ethiopia. Therefore, Ethiopia represented the only nation to have made such a transition from Judaism to Christianity. When one makes a thorough study of the traditions of the biblical Jewish nation, one will understand that a Jewish nation could not be reestablished without the Throne and seed of King David. Therefore, Israel as a place remains to be the fragmented ruins of a past flourishing Jewish state. The Roman invasion and occupation of Jerusalem created an atmosphere of tension and political unrest that continued and subsequently led to the destruction of this once glorious city, which used to house the Ark of the Covenant. All this occurred before the birth of Christ, who was to be the major element in the events that were to lead to a New Way.
Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman
Author: Jeanne Christensen
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739175742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman:Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race shaped a liberation movement propelled by the Caribbean evolution of an African spiritual ethos. Jeanne Christensen proposes that Rastafari represents the most recent reworking of this spiritual ethos, referred to as African religiosity. The book contributes a new perspective to the literature on Rastafari, and through a historical lens, corrects the predominant static view of Rastafari women. In certain Rastafari manifestations, a growing livity developed by RastaMen eventually excluded women from an important ritual called "Reasoning"—a conscious search for existential and ontological truth through self-understanding performed in a group setting. Restoring agency to the RastaWoman, Christensen argues that RastaWomen, intimately in touch with this spiritual ethos, challenged oppressive structures within the movement itself. They skirted official restrictions, speaking out in public and written forums whenever such avenues presented themselves, and searched for their own truth through conscious intentional self-examination characteristic of the Reasoning ritual. With its powerful, theoretically informed narrative, Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman:Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity will appeal to students and scholars interested in religious transformation, resistance movements, gender issues, critical race studies, and the history and culture of the English-speaking Caribbean.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739175742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman:Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race shaped a liberation movement propelled by the Caribbean evolution of an African spiritual ethos. Jeanne Christensen proposes that Rastafari represents the most recent reworking of this spiritual ethos, referred to as African religiosity. The book contributes a new perspective to the literature on Rastafari, and through a historical lens, corrects the predominant static view of Rastafari women. In certain Rastafari manifestations, a growing livity developed by RastaMen eventually excluded women from an important ritual called "Reasoning"—a conscious search for existential and ontological truth through self-understanding performed in a group setting. Restoring agency to the RastaWoman, Christensen argues that RastaWomen, intimately in touch with this spiritual ethos, challenged oppressive structures within the movement itself. They skirted official restrictions, speaking out in public and written forums whenever such avenues presented themselves, and searched for their own truth through conscious intentional self-examination characteristic of the Reasoning ritual. With its powerful, theoretically informed narrative, Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman:Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity will appeal to students and scholars interested in religious transformation, resistance movements, gender issues, critical race studies, and the history and culture of the English-speaking Caribbean.
Rasta Heart
Author: Robert Roskind
Publisher: Robert Roskind
ISBN: 9781565220744
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Since his pasing in 1981, Bob Marley's music, like tribal drumming, has been sending out a message of love and freedom for all humanity. Twenty years later, Julia and Robert Roskind traveled to Jamaica to learn more about Rastafari-the people and philosophy that inspired his music. Their life-changing odyssey through the towns, villages and mountains of this beautiful island, revealed not only the Rasta way of life but an ancient mystery as well. "RASTA HEART" is truly a journey into One Love. "Riveting ... An incredible adventure that reveals the true essence of Rasta!" Dr. Dennis Forsythe author of "Rastafarians:The Healing of the Nations."
Publisher: Robert Roskind
ISBN: 9781565220744
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Since his pasing in 1981, Bob Marley's music, like tribal drumming, has been sending out a message of love and freedom for all humanity. Twenty years later, Julia and Robert Roskind traveled to Jamaica to learn more about Rastafari-the people and philosophy that inspired his music. Their life-changing odyssey through the towns, villages and mountains of this beautiful island, revealed not only the Rasta way of life but an ancient mystery as well. "RASTA HEART" is truly a journey into One Love. "Riveting ... An incredible adventure that reveals the true essence of Rasta!" Dr. Dennis Forsythe author of "Rastafarians:The Healing of the Nations."
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.
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.
Messianic 'I' and Rastafari in New Testament Dialogue
Author: Delano Vincent Palmer
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761850465
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in both. As the phenomenon is important in the canonical Testaments, more so within the New Testament, this study seeks to investigate its significance in certain epistolary pieces (Romans 7:14-25 ; 15:14-33), the bio-Narratives and the Apocalypse in their historical and cultural milieu. The next stage of the investigation then compares the findings of the aforementioned New Testament books with corresponding statements of the Rasta community, in order to determine their relevance for the ongoing Anglophone theological enterprise. In sum, this study seeks to bring into critical dialogue the permutative messianic 'I' of the New Testament with the self-understanding of Rastafari.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761850465
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in both. As the phenomenon is important in the canonical Testaments, more so within the New Testament, this study seeks to investigate its significance in certain epistolary pieces (Romans 7:14-25 ; 15:14-33), the bio-Narratives and the Apocalypse in their historical and cultural milieu. The next stage of the investigation then compares the findings of the aforementioned New Testament books with corresponding statements of the Rasta community, in order to determine their relevance for the ongoing Anglophone theological enterprise. In sum, this study seeks to bring into critical dialogue the permutative messianic 'I' of the New Testament with the self-understanding of Rastafari.
An Ethos of Blackness
Author: Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231558104
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Rastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas. Vivaldi Jean-Marie examines Rastafari’s core beliefs and practices, arguing that they constitute a distinctively Black system of norms and values—at once an ethos and a cosmology. He traces Rastafari’s origins in enslaved people’s strategies of resistance, Jamaican Revivalism, and Garveyism, showing how it incorporates ancestral religious traditions and emancipatory politics. An Ethos of Blackness draws out the significance of practices such as avoiding technological exploitation of natural artifacts and the belief in living in harmony with the natural order. Jean-Marie considers Rastafari’s theology, exploring its reinterpretation of biblical scriptures and its foundations in the rejection of Christianity’s Eurocentrism and racism. However, he insists, before Rastafari can fulfill its promise of liberation for people of African descent, it must confront its failure to include women and redress sexism. Through rigorous and sensitive reflections on Rastafari culture and cosmology, this book offers deeply original insights into the Black theological imagination.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231558104
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Rastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas. Vivaldi Jean-Marie examines Rastafari’s core beliefs and practices, arguing that they constitute a distinctively Black system of norms and values—at once an ethos and a cosmology. He traces Rastafari’s origins in enslaved people’s strategies of resistance, Jamaican Revivalism, and Garveyism, showing how it incorporates ancestral religious traditions and emancipatory politics. An Ethos of Blackness draws out the significance of practices such as avoiding technological exploitation of natural artifacts and the belief in living in harmony with the natural order. Jean-Marie considers Rastafari’s theology, exploring its reinterpretation of biblical scriptures and its foundations in the rejection of Christianity’s Eurocentrism and racism. However, he insists, before Rastafari can fulfill its promise of liberation for people of African descent, it must confront its failure to include women and redress sexism. Through rigorous and sensitive reflections on Rastafari culture and cosmology, this book offers deeply original insights into the Black theological imagination.