The First Rasta

Author : Stephen Davis,Helene Lee
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556524660

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Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta—ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks—this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20th century, Rastafarianism. Although jailed, ridiculed, and treated as insane, Howell, also known as the Gong, established a Rasta community of 4,500 members, the first agro-industrial enterprise devoted to producing marijuana. In the late 1950s the community was dispersed, disseminating Rasta teachings throughout the ghettos of the island. A young singer named Bob Marley adopted Howell's message, and through Marley's visions, reggae made its explosion in the music world.

Author : Stephen Davis,Hélène Lee
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781613745649

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The First Rasta by Stephen Davis,Hélène Lee Pdf

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta—ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks—this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20th century, Rastafarianism. Although jailed, ridiculed, and treated as insane, Howell, also known as the Gong, established a Rasta community of 4,500 members, the first agro-industrial enterprise devoted to producing marijuana. In the late 1950s the community was dispersed, disseminating Rasta teachings throughout the ghettos of the island. A young singer named Bob Marley adopted Howell's message, and through Marley's visions, reggae made its explosion in the music world.

Author : Hélène Lee
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781556525582

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The First Rasta by Hélène Lee Pdf

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta--ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks--this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20th century, Rastafarianism. Although jailed, ridiculed, and treated as insane, Howell, also known as the Gong, established a Rasta community of 4,500 members, the first agro-industrial enterprise devoted to producing marijuana. In the late 1950s the community was dispersed, disseminating Rasta teachings throughout the ghettos of the island. A young singer named Bob Marley adopted Howell's message, and through Marley's visions, reggae made its explosion in the music world.

Author : Michael Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134816996

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The Rastafari Movement by Michael Barnett Pdf

The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective provides a historical and ideological overview of the Rastafari movement in the context of its early beginnings in the island of Jamaica and its eventual establishment in other geographic locations. Building on previous scholarship and the author's own fieldwork, the text goes on to provide a rich comparative analysis of the Rastafari movement with other Black theological movements, specifically the Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrew Israelites in the context of the United States. The text explores the following topics: • Pan-Africanism, Black nationalism and Rastafari; • gender dynamics; • globalization; • concepts and symbols; • other Black theological movements. This text is ideal for students of religious studies, sociology, anthropology, African Diaspora studies, African American studies, and Black studies who wish to gain an understanding of the history and beliefs of the Rastafari Movement.

Author : Charles Price
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814767474

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Becoming Rasta by Charles Price Pdf

Reveals the personal experiences of those who adopted the Rastafari religion in the 1950s to 1970s. This title explores the identity development of the religion, demonstrating how shifts in the movement's identity have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and Blackness as central to their concept of self.

Author : G. G. Maragh
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465517340

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The Promised Key by G. G. Maragh Pdf

Author : Barry Chevannes
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780815603948

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Rastafari by Barry Chevannes Pdf

The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and ethnographic approach that seeks to correct several misconceptions in existing literature—the true origin of dreadlocks for instance. It will interest religion scholars, historians, scholars of Black studies, and a general audience interested in the movement and how Rastafarians settled in other countries.

Author : Clinton A. Hutton,Michael A. Barnett,Daive A. Dunkley,Jahlani Niaah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9766405492

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Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari by Clinton A. Hutton,Michael A. Barnett,Daive A. Dunkley,Jahlani Niaah Pdf

This volume is the product of interest in both Howell and the genesis of the Rastafari movement. The volume was conceived and compiled by Rastafari scholars that hail from a range of disciplines at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, thus assuring a cross-disciplinary feel for this important contribution to Rastafari scholarship.

Author : Empress Yuajah
Publisher : Empress Yuajah
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Rasta Way of Life by Empress Yuajah Pdf

What is the first thing a Rastafari does when he/she wakes up in the morning? What is the correct way to grow dreadlocks as a Rasta? What products do Rasta in the Caribbean use to wash their dreadlocks and why? What are 10 Essentials of a Rastafari Home? What can one do to Convert to the Rastafari Livity? What are some Bible Chapters special to Rasta and why? “Rasta Way of Life” is a book for the student of Rastafari Livity. Follow the way life of Jah Rastafari, dictated to Rasta, to enter Holy Mount Zion.

Author : Monique A. Bedasse
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469633602

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Jah Kingdom by Monique A. Bedasse Pdf

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.

Author : Velma Pollard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780773568280

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Dread Talk by Velma Pollard Pdf

Dread Talk examines the effects of Rastafarian language on Creole in other parts of the Carribean, its influence in Jamaican poetry, and its effects on standard Jamaican English. This revised edition includes a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred since the book first appeared and a new chapter, "Dread Talk in the Diaspora," that discusses Rastafarian as used in the urban centers of North America and Europe. Pollard provides a wealth of examples of Rastafarian language-use and definitions, explaining how the evolution of these forms derives from the philosophical position of the Rasta speakers: "The socio-political image which the Rastaman has had of himself in a society where lightness of skin, economic status, and social privileges have traditionally gone together must be included in any consideration of Rastafarian words " for the man making the words is a man looking up from under, a man pressed down economically and socially by the establishment."

Author : Linda Ainouche
Publisher : Caribbean
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9004503099

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Monty Howell by Linda Ainouche Pdf

This book conveys a unique, unrivaled, and moving insight into the life of Monty Howell, the little-know eldest son of Leonard Howell, regarded as the Father of Rastafari. Opening several files, over the pages, the man is revealed behind the son. Being both an actor and storyteller of History, Monty Howell blends anecdotes, reflections, and revelations, avoiding no subject, even the most delicate and scorching. With confidence, he takes you through his childhood memories, his conflicts with Jamaica, and his reconciliations on behalf of his father's legacy. With bold, mature, incisive, and provocative assertions, he even reframed the Rasta experiences and the development of Rastafari, altering the terms of the knowledge and the subsequent discourse.

Author : Ennis B. Edmonds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191642470

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Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction by Ennis B. Edmonds Pdf

From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centres and many outposts of the world. Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of this widespread but often poorly understood movement. Ennis B. Edmonds looks at the essential history of Rastafari, including its principles and practices and its internal character and configuration. He examines its global spread, and its far-reaching influence on cultural and artistic production in the Caribbean and beyond. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Horace Campbell
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Black nationalism
ISBN : 0865430357

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Rasta and Resistance by Horace Campbell Pdf

Author : Michael Barnett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815633600

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Rastafari in the New Millennium by Michael Barnett Pdf

In the dawn of the new African Millennium, the Rastafari movement has achieved unheralded growth and visibility since its inception more than eighty years ago. Moving beyond a pure spiritual movement, its aesthetic component has influenced cultures of the Caribbean, the United States, and others across the globe. Locating the Rastafari movement at a literal and figurative crossroad, Barnett sets out to consider the possible paths the movement will chart. Rastafari in the New Millennium covers a wide range of perspectives, focusing not only on the movement’s nuanced and complex religious ideology but also on its political philosophy, cosmology, and unique epistemology. Barry Chevannes’s essay addresses the concerns of death and repatriation, highlighting the transformative challenges these issues pose to Rastafari. Essays by Ian Boxill, Edward Te Kohu Douglas, Erin C. MacLeod, and Janet L. DeCosmo, among others, offer rich accounts of the globalization of Rastafari from New Zealand to Ethiopia, from Brazil to Nigeria. Drawing on new research and global developments, the contributors, many of whom are leading scholars in the field, reinvigorate the critical dialogue on the current state and future direction of the Rastafari movement.