Rastafari: A Universal Philosophy in the Third MillenniumWerner Zips "Rastafari practitioners have continually resisted social sciences definition of what outsiders called a millenarian movement. They maintained against these efforts of categorization that Rastafari as a lived and living philosophy combines ancient roots with ever emerging routes. These historical, dynamic and creative dimensions challenge any homogenizing attempts to freeze the 'movement' in time and space. African origins are as important as Diasporean experiences for Rastafari in the manifold struggles to downstroy slavery and oppression. But the strong universal appeal towards the realization of equal rights and justice implodes analytical and practical limitations of a Black Atlantic culture. This volume brings together contributions from well-known Rastafari practitioners and social scientists as a counter to the unilateral politics of outside definition, identification, and misrepresentation. They discuss Rastafari as an experimental philosophy; its historical and contemporary global culture dimensions and its contribution to issues such as decolonization, reparation and repatriation. " |
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... never knew nothing about Africa . As a matter of fact , is in high school , I knew that we have writers from the Caribbean imagine that I never know , that we have writers from the Caribbean is in about the second form at Kingston ...
... never knew nothing about Africa . As a matter of fact , is in high school , I knew that we have writers from the Caribbean imagine that I never know , that we have writers from the Caribbean is in about the second form at Kingston ...
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... never felt alienated from the procession that was taking place . I never feel like a stranger , I never felt like a stranger actually . This was me . The people that I saw in their regalia and all those things were Black people . And ...
... never felt alienated from the procession that was taking place . I never feel like a stranger , I never felt like a stranger actually . This was me . The people that I saw in their regalia and all those things were Black people . And ...
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... never heard anything like that . I never heard anyone , just sat quietly by myself . I tried to experience it , I tried to figure it out , because walking on this ground , you are not actually walking on simple ground . You walk upon ...
... never heard anything like that . I never heard anyone , just sat quietly by myself . I tried to experience it , I tried to figure it out , because walking on this ground , you are not actually walking on simple ground . You walk upon ...
Contents
Rasta from Experience | 21 |
History and Narration | 42 |
The Return to the Motherland | 72 |
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