Ennis
B. Edmonds (B.A., Jamaica Theological Seminary; M.A., Western
Evangelical [now George Fox Theological] Seminary; Ph.D., Drew University)
came to Kenyon College in the fall of 2003. Formerly, he taught in Sociology
and Pan African Studies and directed the Pan African Studies Program at
Barnard College, Columbia University. His areas of expertise are African
Diaspora Religions, Religion in America, and Sociology of Religion. His
research has focused primarily on Rastafari, leading to the recently published
Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers, Oxford University
Press, 2003. He also published "Dread 'I' In-a-Babylon: Ideological
Resistance and Cultural Revitalization," and "The Structure
and Ethos of Rastafari" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari
Reader, edited by Nathaniel S. Murrell, et al., Temple University
Press, 1998. Current research interests include the conversion of Rastas
to Evangelical Christianity, the Jamaican religious group called Revival
Zion, and religion in Afro-Caribbean and African American popular culture
and literature.
Ennis
B. Edmonds (B.A., Jamaica Theological Seminary; M.A., Western
Evangelical [now George Fox Theological] Seminary; Ph.D., Drew University)
came to Kenyon College in the fall of 2003. Formerly, he taught in Sociology
and Pan African Studies and directed the Pan African Studies Program at
Barnard College, Columbia University. His areas of expertise are African
Diaspora Religions, Religion in America, and Sociology of Religion. His
research has focused primarily on Rastafari, leading to the recently published
Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers, Oxford University
Press, 2003. He also published "Dread 'I' In-a-Babylon: Ideological
Resistance and Cultural Revitalization," and "The Structure
and Ethos of Rastafari" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari
Reader, edited by Nathaniel S. Murrell, et al., Temple University
Press, 1998. Current research interests include the conversion of Rastas
to Evangelical Christianity, the Jamaican religious group called Revival
Zion, and religion in Afro-Caribbean and African American popular culture
and literature.