The Rastafarians
The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.
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The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.
Preface1Paradise Island12Domination and Resistance in Jamaican History293Ethiopianism in Jamaica684Beliefs, Rituals, and Symbols1035An Ambivalent Routinization1466Dissonance and Consonance1677After Selassie: The Rastafarians Since 19752108Where Go the Rastafarians?248Afterword267Appendix271Notes281Bibliography295Index299
