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Rastafari

Rastafari scripture, reasoning, prophetic writing, Afro-Caribbean religious imagination, Ethiopianism, and liberation thought.

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Texts

GlossaryA shelf-specific glossary starter for the Rastafari room.Introduction to RastafariA source-critical introduction to the Good Works Rastafari room, centered on The Holy Piby, The Wisdom of Rastafari, Ethiopianism, Haile Selassie I, Black scripture, livity, Babylon, Zion, reggae, repression, and diaspora.Reader's Guide to RastafariA reader guide to the Rastafari room in the Good Works Library.The Holy Piby — Robert Athlyi RogersThe Holy Piby — 'The Black Man's Bible' — Robert Athlyi Rogers's foundational Rastafarian scripture, written 1913–1917 and published 1924. The First, Second, and Third Books of Athlyi, the Gospel of the Disciples, the Precepts. The text that Marcus Garvey cited and that helped create the Rastafarian movement.The Wisdom of RastafariCollection of scriptural passages and wisdom teachings of the Rastafari tradition — selections from the Ethiopian canon and the King James Bible that form the devotional and doctrinal core of Rastafari spiritual practice.
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