Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 260 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783035307054
Series Statement:
Religions and Discourse 56
Content:
This book is an invitation to reflect on how a minority culture emerged from within «Third World» liberation movements. It considers not only the historical and cultural journey between Ethiopia and Jamaica, but also the psychological dynamics of subalterns between the East and the West.In this work, the author discusses the various beliefs and ideologies of the RastafarI movement in relation to Ethiopia, and challenges the RastafarI misogynistic attitude by rehabilitating the position of women within the movement through the figure of the Queen of Sheba
Content:
«Overall, this topnotch book enables readers to see Rastafari as an avowedly African way of being religious and as such should appeal to students and specialists alike. I warmly recommend it.»(Darren J. N. Middleton, Nova Religio Vol. 20 No. 3, 2017)Read the full review here
Content:
Contents: Interpreting RastafarI identity – The East: Locating Ethiopia – The link between Rastas and the Ethiopian Christians: The Monophysite doctrine in RastafarI – Rasta Talk: A linguistic and metaphysical resistance – Afrocentricity in RastafarI: The origins of the RastafarI movement – Relocating Xaymaca: Cultural stereotypes in confrontation – A woman in RastafarI: Liberation and ethnic-religious creativity – The Bible and the Ethiopian literary sources
Note:
Dissertation University of Birmingham 2012
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783034309592
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Coltri, Marzia Anna Beyond RastafarI Oxford : Peter Lang, 2015 ISBN 3034309597
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783034309592
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Rastafari
;
Äthiopische Kirche
;
Theologie
;
Kultur
;
Rastafari
;
Äthiopische Kirche
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Königin von Saba
;
Rezeption
;
Rastafari
;
Äthiopische Kirche
;
Feministische Theologie
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-0353-0705-4
URL:
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Author information:
Coltri, Marzia Anna
