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Books

Chanting Down Babylon

Chanting Down Babylon

The Definitive Work on Rastafari.

Book information from Temple University Press

 

Book Chapters

(2010). Rastafari and Violence. New York: Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence.

(2006). "The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible" in Voices from the Margin, Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah, 169-188. New York: Maryknoll.

(2000). "Wresting the Message from the Messenger, The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible" in African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Text and Social Texure, ed. Vincent L. Wimbash, 558-576. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.

(1998). "Rastafari's Messianic Ideology and Caribbean Theology of Liberation" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 390-411. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

(1998). "The Black Biblical Hermeneutics of Rastafari" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 326-348. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

(1998). "Rastas' Psychology of Blackness, Resistance, and Somebodiness" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 36-64. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

 

Journal Articles

(2009). "Medicated Ganja and Rasta Rituals: Allies in a Global Battle." Jamaica Journal, 7, University of West Indies(IDEAZ): 82-107.

(2001). "Tunning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms: Rastas' Revolutionary Lamentations for Social Change." Cross Currents, 50 (4): 525-540.

(1994). "Woman as Source of Evil and Contaminant in Rastafarianism:  Championing Hebrew Patriarchy and Oppresion with Lev. 12." Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Society, 13: 191-209.

 

Presentations

(2002). "Santeria, Myth, Magic and Mystery in Caribbean Religions," given at NCRSA.

2001). "Ganja and Peyote, Forbidden Rituals of the Oppressed ," given at NCRSA.

(2000). "Legalizing it:  The San Francisco Appellate Court Ruling and the Global Accepatance of Rastafari as a Religion Sui Generis," AAR/SBL, Nashville, TN.

(2000). "The Influence of Rastafari on the Western Judicial System: The Montana Case Study ," given at AAR.

Seminars

PAR 495: Rastas and Garvey

 

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Nathaniel S. Murrell

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