Leonard E. Barrett, Sr., is graduate professor of religion at Temple University, and author of Soul-Force.
Review
"Barrett offers the most comprehensive study to date of the Rastafarians."
--Bulletin of the Center for the Study of World Religions
"The most thorough, careful consideration of the Rasta phenomenon available to the general reader."
-- The Boston Phoenix
Beacon Press Web Site, Aug., 2001
Summary
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence
of the Rastafarians of Jamaica.
Table of Contents
1. Paradise Island
2. Domination and Resistance in Jamaican History
3. Ethiopianism in Jamaica
4. Beliefs, Rituals, and Symbols
5. An Ambivalent Routinization
6. Dissonance and Consonance
7. After Selassie: The Rastafarians Since 1975
8. Where Go the Rastafarians?
