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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $12.70
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.676
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Publication Date: 1997-10-15
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: What did Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley and Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia have in common? A love for the Kebra Negast, holy book of Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians. Contemporary scholars date the Kebra Negast to the 14th century, but it retells the stories of much earlier Biblical times, one very important story in particular. According to the Kebra Negast, the Israelites' Ark of the Covenant was spirited away to the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia by wise King Solomon's own son, offspring of the union between Solomon and the exotic Queen Makeda of Ethiopia (a.k.a. the Queen of Sheba). Gerald Hausman, a consummate storyteller of native traditions, presents the core narrative of the Kebra Negast, from Adam to the rise of the Ethiopian Solomonid dynasty. On top of this, he injects his own encounters with Rastafarians during his travels in Jamaica--dreadlocked Rastas as modern-day Samsons, their unwavering faith in Jah, and a rare outsider's glimpse at the Nyabinghi ceremony. The combination of ancient tale and modern belief give Hausman's Kebra Negast the rich flavor of enduring truth. --Brian Bruya
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $5.88
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leonard E. Barrett
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.676
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Publication Date: 1997-12-12
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Reading Level: 306
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Description: The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence of the Rastafarians of Jamaica.
"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
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: One Love Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Roskind
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Publisher: One Love Press
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Publication Date: 2001-10
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Since his pasing in 1981, Bob Marley's music, like tribal drumming, has been sending out a message of love and freedom for all humanity. Twenty years later, Julia and Robert Roskind traveled to Jamaica to learn more about Rastafari-the people and philosophy that inspired his music. Their life-changing odyssey through the towns, villages and mountains of this beautiful island, revealed not only the Rasta way of life but an ancient mystery as well. "RASTA HEART" is truly a journey into One Love. "Riveting... An incredible adventure that reveals the true essence of Rasta!" Dr. Dennis Forsythe author of "Rastafarians:The Healing of the Nations."
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.57
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Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barry Chevannes
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.67
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Publication Date: 1994-09
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Reading Level: 298
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Description: Interviews with 30 converts from the 1930s and 1940s are a component of Barry Chevanne's book, a look into the origins and practices of Rastafarianism. From the direct accounts of these early members, he is able to reconstruct pivotal episodes in Rastafarian history to offer a look into a subgroup of Jamaican society whose beliefs took root in the social unrest of the 1930s. The little that most people know about Rastafarianism has come through the Jamaican music, Reggae, which resonates with the contemporary social and political struggle of the poverty-stricken cities of Trenchtown and Kingston. Bob Marley and the Wailers, for instance, with their politically charged lyrics about the ghetto, became emissaries for the Jamaican poor. Here Chevannes traces Rastafarianism back to 1930's prophet Marcus Garvey and his mass coalition against racial oppression and support of a free Africa. Before Garvey, few Jamaicans, the overwhelming majority of whom had been brought to the island from Africa and enslaved by Europeans, held positive attitudes about Africa. The rise of black nationalism, however, provided the movement with its impetus to organise a system of beliefs. Likewise, Chevannes explores the movement's roots in the Jamaican peasantry, which underwent distinct phases of development between 1834 and 1961 as freed slaves became peasants. The peasants established themselves in the recesses of the island and many eventually moved to cities, where the economic and social hardship already inherent in Jamaican society, was even more desolate. Between 1943 and 1960, detrimental social changes transformed Jamaica's rapidly expanding cities. Kingston's population grew by 86 percent, and crime and disease were rampant. It was under this severe social decay that Rastafari became a hospice for the uprooted and derelict masses. As a spiritual philosophy, Rastafarianism is linked to societies of runaway slaves or maroons and derives from both the African Myal religion and the Revivalist Zion churches. Like the revival movement, Rastafarianism embraces the 400-year-old doctrine of repatriation. Rastas believe that they and all Africans who have migrated are but exiles in "Babylon" and are destined to be delivered out of captivity by a return to Zion or Africa - the land of their ancestors and the seat of Jah Rastafari himself, Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia. "Rastafari" is a work with an historical and ethnographic approach that seeks to correct several misconceptions in existing literature - the true origin of dreadlocks, for instance. It should be of interest to religion scholars, historians, scholars of Black studies, and a general audience interested in the movement and how Rastafarians settled in other countries.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $30.79
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Manufacturer: Africa World Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Africa World Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563609729
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Publication Date: 1993-03
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Reading Level: 132
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Description: Vegitarian Cuisine, Eaten with the salt of the earth
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
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Publication Date: 1998-11-09
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's searing account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in novels such as Annie John, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward the impoverished Caribbean nation from which she fled, her restrictive family, and the culture that imprisoned Devon. That honesty, which includes chilling detachment from her brother's suffering, is sometimes alienating. But art has its own justifications. The bitter clarity of Kincaid's prose and the tangled, undeniably human feelings it lucidly dissects are justification enough.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: powerHouse Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: powerHouse Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.676097292
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Publication Date: 2000-08-31
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: With a penchant for adventure, is it no wonder photographer Patrick Cariou--whose first book, Surfers, drew tidal waves of praise--journeyed to Jamaica, a land that he calls "pure madness, and one of the most dangerous places on earth that is not at war." There he entered the secluded world of the Rastafarians, a world, culture, and religion closed to outsiders. Cariou slowly gained their trust, and they began to let him take their picture. With bold black-and-white portraits and landscapes, Cariou indelibly captured the strict, separatist, jungle-dwelling, fruit-of-the-land lifestyle--popularized by reggae legends Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spear-in never-before--seen images, until now. In Yes Rasta--the phrase spoken by true Rastafari when greeting each other-Cariou's direct, classical photographs reveal men whose style and attitude are as distinctive as their dreadlocks. Men who have left the modern world of Babylon in pursuit of their own independence. Men whose lives are intertwined with the tropical landscape, and whose rituals, symbols, philosophies, religion, medicine, agriculture, family structure, and remarkable strength make the definitive statement of self-reliance.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.24
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Manufacturer: Frontline Distribution International
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jah Ahkell
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Publisher: Frontline Distribution International
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 1999-10-12
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Reading Level: 60
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Description: A classic look at the relationship between Emperor Haile Sellassie 1 and the Rastafarians.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.62
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Manufacturer: Research Associates School Times Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Shepherd Robert Athlyi Rogers
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Publisher: Research Associates School Times Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2000-04-01
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Reading Level: 103
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Description: First published in 1924. Widely acclaimed as the foundation writings of Rastafarian. Also known as the BLACK MAN BIBLE.
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Price: $37.95
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Sale: $24.55
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nathaniel Samuel Murrell::William D. Spencer::Adrian Anthony McFarlane
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.676
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Publication Date: 1998-03-23
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: This anthology explores Rastafari religion, culture, and politics in Jamaica and other parts of the African diaspora. An Afro-Caribbean religious and cultural movement that sprang from the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1930s, today Rastafari has close to one million adherents. The basic message of Rastafari the dismantling of all oppressive institutions and the liberation of humankind even has strong appeal to non-believers who are captivated by reggae music, the lyrics, and the 'immortal spirit' of its enormously popular practitioner, Bob Marley. Probing into Rastafari's still evolving belief system, political goals, and cultural expression, the contributors to this volume emphasize the importance of Africana history and the Caribbean context. Author note: Nathaniel Samuel Murrell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and Visiting Professor at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology in Kingston, Jamaica. William David Spencer serves as Pastor of Encouragement at Pilgrim Church in Beverly, MA, and was an Adjunct Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston. He has authored, co-authored, or edited "The Prayer of Life of Jesus", "Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel", "God through the Looking Glass", "Joy through the Night", "2 Corinthians: Bible Study Commentary", and "The Global God". Adrian Anthony McFarlane is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. He is author of "A Grammar of Fear and Evil A Husserlian-Wittgensteinian Hermeneutic".
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