The Cultural Production of a Black Messiah: Ethiopianism and the Rastafari
Many of the Rastafari people claim that Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia is godly This article explains how the idea of a Black Messiah was culturally produced in the context of Ethiopianist ideology. [End Page 418] It sketches the various expressions of Ethiopianism and some of its leading expo...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2014
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Journal of Africana religions
Jahr: 2014, Band: 2, Heft: 3, Seiten: 418-433 |
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Emperor Haile Selassie I
B Rastafari B Black identity B Ethiopianism B Jamaica |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Many of the Rastafari people claim that Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia is godly This article explains how the idea of a Black Messiah was culturally produced in the context of Ethiopianist ideology. [End Page 418] It sketches the various expressions of Ethiopianism and some of its leading exponents in the United States, Jamaica, and Central and South Africa in order to show why the notion of a Black and African Messiah made sense to a number of Jamaicans. Ethiopianists combined race, scripture, historical experience, religiosity, and social criticism in a way that made possible the formulation of a durable and compelling Black Messiah. The Ethiopianist formulations circulating through Kingston, Jamaica, during the 1920s provided the cultural resources for a new identification—Rastafari—as a way of being and being recognized in the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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