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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... philosophical reasons , no central leadership emerged that could rightfully assert the competence to formulate codes or rules ( of behaviour and thought ) valid for any Rastafari . Just as with the discipline of philosophy , a general ...
... philosophical reasons , no central leadership emerged that could rightfully assert the competence to formulate codes or rules ( of behaviour and thought ) valid for any Rastafari . Just as with the discipline of philosophy , a general ...
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... philosophy ' be adequately called a philosophy from an academic point of view ? Rastafari Philosophy and the Academy Sometimes academic philosophers are unwilling to use the notion of ' folk philosophy ' and accuse anthropologists of ...
... philosophy ' be adequately called a philosophy from an academic point of view ? Rastafari Philosophy and the Academy Sometimes academic philosophers are unwilling to use the notion of ' folk philosophy ' and accuse anthropologists of ...
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... philosophy ' , once it claims this notion for itself , since the very notion will then lose its meaningfulness . But Rastafari has proven its formal and material philosophical richness by decades of engaging the world in critical ...
... philosophy ' , once it claims this notion for itself , since the very notion will then lose its meaningfulness . But Rastafari has proven its formal and material philosophical richness by decades of engaging the world in critical ...
Contents
Rasta from Experience | 21 |
History and Narration | 42 |
The Return to the Motherland | 72 |
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