1969/01/01 by Sheila Kitzinger
Social Sciences · #Caribbean history, culture, and politics
paper · doi:10.2307/1384337
The Rastafari cult in Jamaica is a predomirnantly male-oriented politico-religious protest cult involving the Messianicworship of the Emperor Haille Salassie, and anticipating its return to Africa. This detailed anthropological study of the Rastafari movement interprets the data on the institution itself, and the associated symbol system, in sociological and psychoanalytic terms, and demonstrates how the cult is based on a self-renewing and self-justifying system of belief and action.