An ethos of Blackness : Rastafari cosmology, culture, and consciousness /

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Author / Creator:	Jean-Marie, Vivaldi, author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Description:	xii, 230 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Black Lives in the diaspora : Past/present/future Black lives in the diaspora.
Subject:	Rastafari movement -- Jamaica. Black people -- Jamaica -- Religion. Black people -- Religion. Rastafari movement. Religion. Jamaica -- Religion. Jamaica.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13415375

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ISBN:	9780231209762 0231209762 9780231209779 0231209770 9780231558105
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness provides a detailed elaboration of the norms, culture, practices, and epistemological boundaries of Rastafari in order to argue that it is advancing distinctive religious ideals of Black identity that provide a better theological foundation than colonial and postcolonial versions of Christianity for people of African descent. Emerging during the period between Jamaican Revivalism (beginning 1860s) and Garveyism (beginning 1914), Rastafari incorporated the Afrocentric religious traditions of the former and the political, social, and cultural ethos of the latter. Distinctive practices such as the avoidance of technological manipulation of the living force of natural goods, seen as isomorphic with the freedom from oppression of African diasporic peoples, and the use of I-talk to convey dimensions of Black consciousness define the Afrocentric spirituality of Rastafari. Nonetheless, before Rastafari can fulfill its promise of liberating all Africana peoples from oppression, Vivaldi Jean-Marie argues, it must confront and resolve its failure to include women and LGBTQ within its compass"--
Other form:	Online version: Jean-Marie, Vivaldi. Ethos of Blackness New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] 9780231558105

Table of Contents:

Resistance to British colonialism and the rise of two forms of subjectivity in 'Yamaye'
The genealogy of Rastafari cosmology and its distinctive ethos of Blackness
Rastafari cosmology, natural artifacts, and the ethos of Blackness
Rastafari's theology of Blackness : a Eurocentric god can't love Africans and people of African descent
Rastafari I-talk and Black consciousness
The limit of Rastafari cosmology : gender inequality and the failure to liberate Rasta women.

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