Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews

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Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews is written by Barry Chevannes and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813524121 (ISBN 10) and 9780813524122 (ISBN 13).

Barry Chevannes provides a concise overview of Rastafari and Revivalism and clearly lays out the volume's "new approach". Leading scholars of Rastafari illustrate and develop the theme with chapters on Rastafari as resistance, the origin of the dreadlocks, Rastafari and language, women in African-Caribbean religions and more. With chapters that range from the specific to the general, this volume will be important to specialists of Caribbean religion and the African diaspora and to those with a burgeoning interest in Rastafari.-- Contributors challenge existing scholarship on Rastafari.-- Volume offers both a general overview for the introductory student and sophisticated analysis for the specialist.-- Chapters cover African-Caribbean religions in several countries and from both a contemporary and historical perspective.