Books written by Robert Beckford

  • Dread and Pentecostal: A Political Theology for the Black Church in Britain
    Dread and Pentecostal: A Political Theology for the Black Church in Britain

    and significance of Garvey's movement. For example, Tony Martin has attempted to place Garveyism as a potent Pan-African racial ideology.” In a similar vein Horace Campbell has explored Garvey and Garveyism as part of a continuum of ...

  • Jesus Dub: Theology, Music and Social Change
    Jesus Dub: Theology, Music and Social Change

    Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall.

  • Jesus Dub: Theology, Music and Social Change
    Jesus Dub: Theology, Music and Social Change

    Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall.

  • Duppy Conqueror
    Duppy Conqueror

    This book contours Robert Beckford's recontextualization of African American Black and Womanist theologies of liberation.

  • Duppy Conqueror
    Duppy Conqueror

    ... Duppy Conqueror?' In Jamaican culture, 'duppy conqueror' denotes, amongst many things, the destruction of malevolent spirits (exorcism) or overturning mistruths. Many people outside of Jamaica first heard this phrase in the 1970s as the ...