Rastafari reasoning and the RastaWoman : gender constructions in the shaping of Rastafari livity /

Rastafari reasoning and the RastaWoman : gender constructions in the shaping of Rastafari livity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Christensen, Jeanne, author.
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Description:	xiv, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical Africana studies: African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies Critical Africana studies. African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies
Subject:	Women in the Rastafari movement -- Caribbean Area. Rastafari movement -- Caribbean Area. Feminism -- Caribbean Area. Feminism -- Religious aspects. Feminism. Feminism -- Religious aspects. Rastafari movement. Women in the Rastafari movement. Caribbean Area.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9962162

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ISBN:	9780739175736 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739175734 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780739175743 (electronic)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
1. African-Derived Religiosity
2. The Afro-Creole Village: From Slave to Peasant
3. Emergence of Rastafari: Urbanization and Modernization
4. Reasoning and the Rastaman Woman
5. Taking Root: Rastafari and the Wider Society
6. "From the Cross to the Throne"
7. The Arrival of the RastaWomen: Confronted by the Shadow
Bibliography
Index
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