An Ethos of Blackness - Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness

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.

Sommario

Preface
1. Resistance to British Colonialism and the Rise of Two Forms of Subjectivity in "Yamaye"
2. The Genealogy of Rastafari Cosmology and Its Distinctive Ethos of Blackness
3. Rastafari Cosmology, Natural Artifacts, and the Ethos of Blackness
4. Rastafari's Theology of Blackness: A Eurocentric God Cannot Love Africans and People of African Descent
5. Rastafari I-Talk and Black Consciousness
6. The Limit of Rastafari Cosmology: Gender Inequality and the Failure to Liberate Rasta Women
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vivaldi Jean-Marie, Jean-Marie Vivaldi
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.09.2023
• EAN: 9780231209779
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20977-9
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; Ethnic Studies, Social Science, Jamaica, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Family & health, Caribbean islands, Relating to indigenous peoples, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, History / Caribbean & West Indies / Jamaica, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal