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Degree

Master of Arts, Miami University, Religion, 2011.

Abstract

This paper provides religious analyses of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association [UNIA] outside of previous religious interpretations that utilize normative religious categories, i.e. the eschatological, ecclesiastical, and theological dimensions of Garveyism. This paper utilizes a methodological approach that is comparative in nature and focuses on the rise of European colonialism as a religious and material context that gave rise to Marcus Garvey and his movement. Utilizing methodologies from history of religions approaches, Marcus Garvey is analyzed as akin to a Cargo movement prophet who created rituals, costumes and deployed colonial symbolism to reconcile the dehumanizing effects of colonialism, and to point to a new mode of existence for followers of the UNIA.

Subject Headings

African American Studies; Black History; Black Studies; History; Religion; Religious History

Keywords

Marcus Garvey; Cargo Cult movements; Universal Negro Improvement Association; Gender; HIstory of Religions Methodology; Africa; UNIA; Black Cross Nurses; Marcus Garvey Attire; The Black Star Line; Water Symbolism; The Black Body

Committee / Advisors

Peter Williams, PhD (Advisor)
Lisa Poirier, PhD (Other)
Mark Christian, PhD (Other)

Pages

60p.

Document number: miami1295013682
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