Beyond RastafarI

In this work, the author discusses the various beliefs and ideologies of the RastafarI movement related to Ethiopia. The author also challenges the misogynistic attitude of the RastafarI movement by rehabilitating the position of women through the figure of the Queen of Sheba.

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.

Autorentext

Marzia Anna Coltri, a native of Verona, Italy, is lecturer in Christianity at Christ College London through Canterbury Christ Church University. She holds a Laurea Magistrale in Philosophy and in 2012 received a PhD in minority African religions from the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her areas of expertise are African Theology, Feminist-Womanist Theology and Critical Philosophy. She is part of the Scientific Committee of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (F.O.B.) and she is a member of the British Association for the Study of Religion (B.A.S.R.).

Zusammenfassung
«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)

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Inhalt

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.