Author: Barrett, Leonard E.
Title: The Rastafarians: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance
Description: Boston, Beacon Press, 1977. Hardcover. Green cloth with black lettering on the spine; white DJ with colorful illustration and pink and black lettering; xxiv, 257 pp.; illustrations. "The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere." -- WorldCat. VG (Light edgewear to boards; ffep has a few notes in pen; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good (DJ is toned, foxed, smudged, and edgeworn.).

Keywords: Religions and Religious People ; Rastafari Movement ; ; Religions and Religious People


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