A Community Ten Miles Away: Iyanolan (Saint Lucian) Visions for Rastafari Communal Living
A connection and a yearning towards a communal and primarily agrarian existence connects the Rastafari the world over. Many Rastafari yearn for a life in direct communication with the earth through agricultural labor in a space created for and by the community, a space "up in the hills" aw...
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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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2022
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| In: |
Nova religio
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 88-101 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Saint Lucia
/ Rastafari
/ Imagery
/ Agriculture
/ Commune
/ Self-reliant living
/ Place of refuge
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion KBR Latin America KDH Christian sects NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Rastafari
B Rastafarian B Saint Lucia B Coronavirus B Covid-19 B Repatriation B Communal B Agrarian B Caribbean |
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| Summary: | A connection and a yearning towards a communal and primarily agrarian existence connects the Rastafari the world over. Many Rastafari yearn for a life in direct communication with the earth through agricultural labor in a space created for and by the community, a space "up in the hills" away from the pollutants of a contaminated, corrupting Babylonian society. This was no less the case amongst those in Saint Lucia with whom I conducted recent fieldwork. Different from previous conversations on this topic however, was a new context defined by a global pandemic and a subsequent widely mandated social withdrawal. This engendered a dual response of envisioning rural flight as now more urgent and, in some cases, as a necessary response to COVID-19. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.25.4.88 |
