RASTAFARI AS A RESOURCE FOR SOCIAL ETHICS IN SOUTH AFRICA
This article argues that Rastafarian values represent potential ethical resources for mediating social conflicts in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on Victor Turner's concept of liminality within a broader phenomenological perspective, Rastafari is viewed as a liminal consciousness in a la...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1996
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| In: |
Journal for the study of religion
Year: 1996, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-39 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This article argues that Rastafarian values represent potential ethical resources for mediating social conflicts in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on Victor Turner's concept of liminality within a broader phenomenological perspective, Rastafari is viewed as a liminal consciousness in a larger liminal sub-culture: as paradigmatic of the Afro-Jamaican lifeworld. This consciousness is described, with reference to Rasta poetry, as a redemptive ethic with three centres of value: a relational self (I-n-I), an integrated lifestyle (livity) and a prophetic social destiny (Ithiopia). The I-n-I concept is then utilized as an interpretive device to illuminate social ethical options between competing concepts of personal and social identity in the New South Africa. |
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| ISSN: | 2413-3027 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion
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