Rastafarians and Quakers

(Cross-posted from Ta-Nehisi Coates)

I'm usually averse to attending egghead confabs, but I'd certainly make an exception for the upcoming Inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, which will mark a half-century since the publication of the first academic treatise on the religion. Like all young faiths that manage to outlive their founders' generations, Rastafari is now grappling with important questions regarding its future course. For instance, how does a messianic religion deal with...