Elizabeth A. McAlister
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Elizabeth McAlister Associate Professor of Religion, Weslyan University. Author of Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora.
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Rastafari, religious and political movement, begun in Jamaica in the 1930s and adopted by many groups around the globe, that combines Protestant Christianity, mysticism, and a pan-African political consciousness. Rastas, as members of the movement are called, see their past, present, and future in…
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