From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology

Erskine, Noel Leo

doi:10.1525/jlca.2006.11.1.191

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“…Scholar Mark Ferrara documented that for perhaps thousands of years, multiple peoples have used cannabis for religious reasons (2016), while scholar Laurie Cozad offered a narrower summary of cannabis religions in the United States and Canada (Cozad, 2018). Additionally, scholars have addressed Rastafarianism at length, which originated in Jamaica in the 1900s using cannabis (or ganja) as a religious sacrament and which subsequently migrated to the United States, primarily after World War II (Barrett, 1997; Chevannes, 1994; Erskine, 2007).…”

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Entheogens: Psychedelic religion in the United States, part one

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2023

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“…Rastafarianism is often termed a syncretistic religion that developed in Jamaica in the 1930s blending Christian monotheism and Black nationalism predicated on the idea that Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, is the second coming of Jesus (Barrett, 1997; Chevannes, 1994; Erskine, 2007). Rastafarians belong in the history of entheogens because they embrace cannabis, or what they call ganja, as a sacrament.…”

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Entheogens: Psychedelic religion in the United States, part two

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2023

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Scholars across the academic spectrum have written about the renewed interest in psychedelics that is commonly called the Psychedelic Renaissance (PR). Psychedelic religion is a major component of the PR, as psychedelic churches are growing exponentially and as people who consume and who research psychedelics routinely contend that these substances induce or occasion religious, spiritual, or mystical experiences. Scholars have noticed the growing association of psychoactive substances and religiosity, and they have addressed this association from a variety of academic fields, methods, and methodologies. Part one of this article (“Entheogens: Psychedelic religion in the United States, Part One”) explored the historiography of associations of psychoactive substances and religiosity in the United States from the 1800s to the 1980s. Part two of this article continues the historiographical analysis of this literature beginning in the 1980s and ends with recent scholarship. Collectively, this analysis highlights the evolving political, legal, and sociocultural capital associated with psychoactive substances and religion.

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From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology

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Entheogens: Psychedelic religion in the United States, part one

Entheogens: Psychedelic religion in the United States, part one

Entheogens: Psychedelic religion in the United States, part two

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