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Le mouvement rastafarien jamaicain

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1989

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Institution:

Paris 8

Disciplines:

Sociology

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Abstract EN:

This work is an attempt to dissect the emergence and development of the rastafari cult from its inception in 1930 to the present. Particular attention has been paid to the socio-economic conditions from which this cult emerged; its ideology; its fonction as a sociopoliticoreligious movement within the jamaican community; and its impact on the western world.

Abstract FR:

Ce travail est une tentative de dissequer l'emergence et le developpement du culte rastafarien depuis son incubation en 1930 jusqu'a present. Nous nous sommes surtout interesses aux conditions socioeconomiques desquelles emergea ce culte, son ideologie, sa fonction comme un mouvement socio-politico-religieux a l'interieur de la societe jamaicaine, et son impact sur l'occident.