Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman (eBook)

Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity

Jeanne Christensen (Autor)

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2014
220 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7574-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the intersections of gender and race in a liberation movement propelled by an African spiritual ethos and restores agency to the RastaWoman’s subversive participation in the ritual known as Reasoning. It appeals to studies of religious transformation, resistance movements, gender and race theory and Caribbean history and culture.

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Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman:Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race shaped a liberation movement propelled by the Caribbean evolution of an African spiritual ethos. Jeanne Christensen proposes that Rastafari represents the most recent reworking of this spiritual ethos, referred to as African religiosity. The book contributes a new perspective to the literature on Rastafari, and through a historical lens, corrects the predominant static view of Rastafari women.In certain Rastafari manifestations, a growing livity developed by RastaMen eventually excluded women from an important ritual called "e;Reasoning"e;-a conscious search for existential and ontological truth through self-understanding performed in a group setting. Restoring agency to the RastaWoman, Christensen argues that RastaWomen, intimately in touch with this spiritual ethos, challenged oppressive structures within the movement itself. They skirted official restrictions, speaking out in public and written forums whenever such avenues presented themselves, and searched for their own truth through conscious intentional self-examination characteristic of the Reasoning ritual.With its powerful, theoretically informed narrative, Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman:Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity will appeal to students and scholars interested in religious transformation, resistance movements, gender issues, critical race studies, and the history and culture of the English-speaking Caribbean.

Autor

Jeanne Christensen served as lecturer in the Department of History and the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Inhalt

Chapter One: African ReligiosityChapter Two: The Afro-Creole Village Chapter Three: Emergence of RastafariChapter Four: Reasoning and the Rastaman WomanChapter Five: Taking RootChapter Six: "From the Cross to the Throne"Chapter Seven: The Arrival of RastaWoman

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Africana Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Africana Studies • Black Religion • Caribbean liberation theology • Caribbean Studies • Creolization • Diaspora • epistemiology • Feminism • Haile Selassie • Jamaica • Social Movements
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-7574-2 / 0739175742
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7574-3 / 9780739175743