{"product_id":"an-ethos-of-blackness-rastafari-cosmology-culture-and-consciousness-paperback","title":"An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVivaldi Jean-Marie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivaldi Jean-Marie examines Rastafari's core beliefs and practices, arguing that they constitute a distinctively Black system of norms and values--at once an ethos and a cosmology. He traces Rastafari's origins in enslaved people's strategies of resistance, Jamaican Revivalism, and Garveyism, showing how it incorporates ancestral religious traditions and emancipatory politics. \u003ci\u003eAn Ethos of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e draws out the significance of practices such as avoiding technological exploitation of natural artifacts and the belief in living in harmony with the natural order. Jean-Marie considers Rastafari's theology, exploring its reinterpretation of biblical scriptures and its foundations in the rejection of Christianity's Eurocentrism and racism. However, he insists, before Rastafari can fulfill its promise of liberation for people of African descent, it must confront its failure to include women and redress sexism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough rigorous and sensitive reflections on Rastafari culture and cosmology, this book offers deeply original insights into the Black theological imagination.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivaldi Jean-Marie teaches in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University and is a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eReflections on Jean Am駻y: Torture, Resentment, and Homelessness as the Mind's Limits\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eKierkegaard: History and Eternal Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eFanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777241678112,"sku":"9780231209779","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eb144175dc7dfd3edd4529b3d6790d0c.webp?v=1780495499","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-ethos-of-blackness-rastafari-cosmology-culture-and-consciousness-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}