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- Title
I, ME, MYSELF Y LOS DILEMAS DE LA VOLUNTAD EN KINGSTON, JAMAICA.
- Authors
Wardle, Huon; De Daniela Castellanos Montes, Traducción
- Abstract
Rastafarianism and Revivalism are religious ideologies that grew out of the experience of landlessness and slum dwelling in Jamaica during the post-slavery period. Despite many close affinities (including their proximity in the urban setting), these forms of religiosity express quite different views of the self and the will. Revival, the older cult, talks of the self as a 'me' that, though endowed with distinct 'gifts', is buffeted by multiple spiritual forces and must strive to find a path between good and bad 'work'. Rastafarianism, in contrast, emphasizes a divinized and unifying 'I' vis-à-vis the oppressor, 'Babylon'. This article investigates these diverging possibilities of self-expression in terms of Arendt's concept of the 'life of the mind' and her historical viewpoint on the idea of willing, and examines two individuals who have taken up these religious forms in specific ways and under distinct circumstances.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; RASTAFARI movement; ZIONISM; SELF-expression; ETHIOPIANISM; RASTAFARIAN literature; RELIGIOUS movements
- Publication
Maguaré, 2011, Vol 25, Issue 2, p11
- ISSN
0120-3045
- Publication type
Article