Beyond RastafarI

Marzia Anna Coltri, a native of Verona, Italy, is lecturer in Christianity at Christ College London through Canterbury Christ Church University. She holds a Laurea Magistrale in Philosophy and in 2012 received a PhD in minority African religions from the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her areas of expertise are African Theology, Feminist-Womanist Theology and Critical Philosophy. She is part of the Scientific Committee of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (F.O.B.) and she is a member of the British Association for the Study of Religion (B.A.S.R.).

• Contents: Interpreting RastafarI identity – The East: Locating Ethiopia – The link between Rastas and the Ethiopian Christians: The Monophysite doctrine in RastafarI – Rasta Talk: A linguistic and metaphysical resistance – Afrocentricity in RastafarI: The origins of the RastafarI movement – Relocating Xaymaca: Cultural stereotypes in confrontation – A woman in RastafarI: Liberation and ethnic-religious creativity – The Bible and the Ethiopian literary sources.

"Overall, this topnotch book enables readers to see Rastafari as an avowedly African way of being religious and as such should appeal to students and specialists alike. I warmly recommend it." (Darren J. N. Middleton, Nova Religio February 2017)