I-Sight: The World of Rastafari An

Provides invaluable information about one of the most significant yet least understood new religious movements of the twentieth century.

Series Editor's Foreword

vii

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xvii

PART I Introduction to Rastafari and the Scholarship on the Movement

Origins and Development

3

(38)

Who is a Rastafarian?

3

(6)

The Social and Cultural Context: Afro--Jamaican Consciousness in Plantation America

9

(8)

The Birth of a Movement

17

(5)

Rastafari Today: A New Consciousness

22

(19)

The Scholarship on Rastafari: The Problem of Impenetrability

41

(28)

The Seminal Ethnographic Research

42

(7)

The Major Sociological Studies

49

(5)

The Public Policy Commentaries

54

(15)

PART II The Theoretical Perspective: The Life--World

Contours of the Life-World and the Rasta Poetic Symbol

69

(22)

Toward a Definition of Symbol

73

(3)

Rasta Symbols as Afro-Caribbean Poetry

76

(15)

Everyday Life as Liminal Process

91

(30)

Liminality as Social Scientific Construct

92

(6)

Liminal Consciousness in Afro-Jamaican History

98

(7)

Liminal Consciousness in Contemporary Experience

105

(16)

Religion as Trans-Social Context

121

(22)

Toward a Definition of Religion

121

(7)

Religious Consciousness in a Liminal Arena

128

(3)

Rastafari as a Liminal Religious Awareness

131

(12)

PART III The Disclosure of the World of Rastafari

The Concept of Self: I--N--I

143

(58)

Roots Are I

144

(15)

Drum Beat to Africa

144

(8)

Blood of the Creator

152

(4)

I Kingman Rule

156

(3)

I Dwelling with the Poor

159

(20)

Goliath wid a Sling Shot

159

(8)

The Humanscavenger

167

(9)

The Black Bud

176

(3)

I Sight

179

(22)

Peta Wailin in de Wilderness

179

(3)

Black and White

182

(2)

It a Come

184

(17)

The Lifestyle: Livity

201

(56)

The I--tal Ethos

202

(14)

I Jead inna I Locks

202

(6)

I Shall Not Remove

208

(5)

I Do with What me Have

213

(3)

I--n--I Come to Recreate

216

(19)

Take Up Your Tool

217

(3)

Release Dark Phantoms

220

(9)

Sing Louder dan de Abeng

229

(6)

Reflection in Red

235

(22)

Reality Seh I fi Free

236

(5)

I See Her, a Black Queen

241

(5)

I Shall Not Die a Natural Death

246

(11)

The Vision of Good and Evil: From Babylon to Ethiopia

257

(50)

Chanting Down Babylon

257

(22)

Pimper's Paradise

258

(6)

Vampire System

264

(6)

Scientific Animalism

270

(9)

Ipatriation to Ethiopia

279

(28)

The Rising of the Irix

280

(6)

Riding thru the Storm

286

(5)

Coming in from the Cold

291

(16)

PART IV Conclusion: A Summary of the Argument and Implications for Research

Rastafari in Sociological and Ethical Perspective

307

(34)

Rastafari in Retrospect

307

(9)

The Persistence of the Movement

308

(4)

The Transformative Character of the Movement

312

(3)

The Popularity of the Movement

315

(1)

Implications for the Sociology of Religion

316

(11)

Interpretive Coherence

317

(2)

Empirical Reference

319

(4)

Replicable Knowledge

323

(4)

Rastafari as a Resource for Social Ethics

327

(14)

The Anancy Folk and Missionary Christian Traditions

327

(4)

The Synthetic Character of Rastafari

331

(2)

Elements for an Afro--Jamaican Social Ethic

333

(8)

Appendix A: The English-Speaking Caribbean Tradition of Poetry

341

(8)

Appendix B: The Source Materials: Rastafarian Poetry

349

(4)

Bibliography

353

(34)

Index

387

(12)

About the Author

399

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