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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... struggle was not peculiar to Jamaica , but was simultaneously taking place throughout the West Indies . There were similar labour strikes and riots taking place throughout the 1930s in Barbados , Saint Kitts , Trinidad and Tobago ...
... struggle was not peculiar to Jamaica , but was simultaneously taking place throughout the West Indies . There were similar labour strikes and riots taking place throughout the 1930s in Barbados , Saint Kitts , Trinidad and Tobago ...
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... struggle with the consequences of their ancestors ' white- black union under the pressure of a plantation society . Nellie's awakening and the discovery of her pedigree and culture are two aspects of the same reorientation process ; she ...
... struggle with the consequences of their ancestors ' white- black union under the pressure of a plantation society . Nellie's awakening and the discovery of her pedigree and culture are two aspects of the same reorientation process ; she ...
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... struggle for I - nity- transcendence of the Babylon - Zion duality in each person to uncover the original divine nature of humanity . The immanence of Jah should not simply be taken to mean that each One is divine . Instead , the divine ...
... struggle for I - nity- transcendence of the Babylon - Zion duality in each person to uncover the original divine nature of humanity . The immanence of Jah should not simply be taken to mean that each One is divine . Instead , the divine ...
Contents
Rasta from Experience | 21 |
History and Narration | 42 |
The Return to the Motherland | 72 |
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