An ethos of Blackness : Rastafari cosmology, culture, and consciousness / Vivaldi Jean-Marie.
| Author/creator | Jean-Marie, Vivaldi author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] |
| Description | xii, 230 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Black Lives in the diaspora : Past/present/future Black lives in the diaspora. ^A1459309 |
| Contents | Resistance to British colonialism and the rise of two forms of subjectivity in 'Yamaye' -- The genealogy of Rastafari cosmology and its distinctive ethos of Blackness -- Rastafari cosmology, natural artifacts, and the ethos of Blackness -- Rastafari's theology of Blackness : a Eurocentric god can't love Africans and people of African descent -- Rastafari I-talk and Black consciousness -- The limit of Rastafari cosmology : gender inequality and the failure to liberate Rasta women. |
| Abstract | "An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness provides a detailed elaboration of the norms, culture, practices, and epistemological boundaries of Rastafari in order to argue that it is advancing distinctive religious ideals of Black identity that provide a better theological foundation than colonial and postcolonial versions of Christianity for people of African descent. Emerging during the period between Jamaican Revivalism (beginning 1860s) and Garveyism (beginning 1914), Rastafari incorporated the Afrocentric religious traditions of the former and the political, social, and cultural ethos of the latter. Distinctive practices such as the avoidance of technological manipulation of the living force of natural goods, seen as isomorphic with the freedom from oppression of African diasporic peoples, and the use of I-talk to convey dimensions of Black consciousness define the Afrocentric spirituality of Rastafari. Nonetheless, before Rastafari can fulfill its promise of liberating all Africana peoples from oppression, Vivaldi Jean-Marie argues, it must confront and resolve its failure to include women and LGBTQ within its compass"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jean-Marie, Vivaldi. Ethos of Blackness New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] 9780231558105 |
| LCCN | 2023004254 |
| ISBN | 9780231209779 |
| ISBN | 9780231209762 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231209762 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0231209770 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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