Anna Kasafi Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 709530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Kasafi Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Kasafi |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies System |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7370-3661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Street Art in Kingston, Jamaica: A Public Performance of Religiosity
This study aims to give street art, especially religious street art, the critical attention it deserves. A sample of visual images present in various inner-city communities of Kingston, Jamaica, is considered, taking account of the analysis of Jaffe, Rhiney and Francis. It focuses on the uses of popular art to institutionalize criminal governance structures through the iconization of local area leaders known as “dons” by aesthetic fashioning that…
Confronting the Hidden Dimensions of the Moral Life: A Caribbean Catholic Contribution
This article contributes to the reimagining of Roman Catholic ethics in the twenty-first century, building on the research of Sweeny Block, who argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life play a decisive role in moral agency. By taking account of the work of researchers in moral psychology, the traditional boundaries of moral theology can be reimagined to give a more accurate accounting of moral agency, leading to improved work in mo…
Politics Without a Party: Interrogating RastafarI Ethics of Political (Dis)engagement (in the 21st Century)
This discussion explores the (dis)engagement of Jamaican RastafarI from the party political process, using RastafarI elder Mortimo Planno's notion of "politics without a party" as a strand shaping and tying together the multiple threads of the exploration. The discussion examines how RastafarI has engaged with partisan politics/political parties from Independence (1962) until today. It highlights the differing ways of approaching politics among R…
On/Unstained White dress(es): Afro-Caribbean Female Purity in Sacred Spaces in Three Caribbean Women Poets
There is a white dress – baptismal, communion or confirmation – that appears in select poems of three Caribbean women poets, Jennifer Rahim (Trinidad), M. NourbeSe Philip (Trinidad/Canada) and Barbara Ferland (Jamaica). The dress is intended to be worn by Afro-Caribbean girls in a church, sacred, or sacramental context and speak to matters of purity in the female/girl child who is so clad. At the same time, the dress - spotless or yellowed - expo…
“Secessionist Maroons who have asserted sovereignty”: Accompong Maroons and the Jamaican State today
En 2021, con la elección de un nuevo jefe (el coronel más joven de la historia, con 40 años), las relaciones entre los Accompong Maroons y el gobierno de Jamaica se deterioraron. Bajo el mando del jefe Richard Currie, que se describe a sí mismo como funcionario del gobierno y jefe de Estado, Accompong afirmó su soberanía como el “Estado soberano de Accompong”, con Accompong Town como capital del Cockpit Country. Los cimarrones del Estado de Ac…
Drinking from the Same Well: African and Caribbean Theological Oversights and a Call for Mutual (Re)connection and a Theology of Repair/Remaking
This is a joint reflection by a group of Christian scholars involved with transatlantic (African/Caribbean/British) theological initiatives, tackling questions of engagement and lack thereof between contemporary African and Caribbean Christian scholars. As we have observed/experienced, African and Caribbean scholars evince ‘selective amnesia’ around theologies and lived experiences across the Atlantic despite deep historical ties and shared Afric…
Human Trafficking Is Modern Day Slavery: Rev. Margaret Fowler, Sex Work and Trafficking
The late Rev. Margaret Fowler, United Church Minister, was a key supporter of LGBTQ rights and a vocal advocate against human trafficking in Jamaica. As the founder of the Theodora Project, Rev. Fowler served many persons coerced into sex work or subject to sexual exploitation. She argued that human trafficking is a complex connection of economy, gender, social dynamics, law, and foreign relations. She called for the Church to be involved in anti…
The Poor Feel it the Most: The Antilles Bishops, the Poor, and Climate Change
This discussion examines the critical nexus that the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC) identifies between the poor and climate change. Attention is paid to the AEC's 2015 Declaration on Climate Change, particularly its concern with the unjust impact of climate change on the poor, poor communities, and poor countries, among which are to be found the small-island developing nations and people of the Caribbean. Indeed, the bishops are clear that, …
Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies
The article maintains that the theological perspectives of RastafarI continue to be under-researched in the Caribbean context with perhaps more attention being paid to their contributions to the racial, musical and linguistic traditions of the region. In particular, Rasta theodicies are not as clearly articulated as other elements of its belief system even as it is recognised that RastafarI mansions and individual members do not hold homogenous b…
Mr Gordon met his fate in the religious spirit: A letter, empire, Christianity and the death of George William Gordon
One of the more important letters issuing from the Morant Bay Uprising of 1865 was written by George William Gordon, just before he was hanged on 23 October 1865. An examination of this letter and the circumstances of its writing gives an insight into the workings of Empire in the Caribbean, particularly the implications of the Christian faith for one Native Baptist, who squared off against the corrupt officials of Empire and the local elite. It …
Just Desert or Just Deserts: God and Suffering in these Perilous Days
This discussion approaches the question of God and human suffering in light of the work of Jamaican theologian Lewin Williams. It demonstrates that Williams rejects notions that suffering is a result of sin (just deserts) or is incapable of being grasped due to its meaningless nature (just desert). Human beings do not live in a just world, but in a tragic one. A tragic vision does not attempt to penetrate the opacity of evil by providing justific…
Moral Dis-ease Making Jamaica Ill? Re-engaging the Conversation on Morality
Using the image of disease, this article argues that the moral misconduct of individual Jamaicans is symptomatic of a larger societal disease, which is making all of us ill to lesser or greater extents. The claim is that Jamaica and Jamaicans are suffering from an ailment in the country’s moral system that has affected all other functioning systems in the nation’s body politic: political, corporate, social, spiritual and personal. The article is …
Carne Vale (Goodbye to Flesh?): Caribbean Carnival, Notions of the Flesh and Christian Ambivalence about the Body
Distinct but Inseparable”: Church and State in the Writings of Michael Manley
The question of how the and the should relate to each other continues to be an important and enduring one and is answered in a variety of ways. Devon Dick, a Baptist Pastor, identifies five current views on the question in the Jamaican context. Among these views is a fairly sectarian perspective, which holds that the and should be separate because they have two different agendas, and like oil and water, they cannot mix. This sectarian approach co…
Resisting Definitive Interpretation: Seeing The Story Of The Exodus Through Caribbean(ite) Eyes
In this essay an attemptis made to heed theologian David Tracy's call for theology to pay greater attention in all its interpretations to the pluralistic and ambiguous reception of its classic texts, including Exodus (Tracy, 1987: 118). The author will present a reflection from the margins, i.e., the perspective of a woman, a descendant of enslaved Africans from the English-speaking Caribbean—a Caribbean(ite) perspective. “Caribbean(ite)” is a de…
Moral Dis-ease Making Jamaica Ill? Re-engaging the Conversation on Morality
Using the image of disease, this article argues that the moral misconduct of individual Jamaicans is symptomatic of a larger societal disease, which is making all of us ill to lesser or greater extents. The claim is that Jamaica and Jamaicans are suffering from an ailment in the country’s moral system that has affected all other functioning systems in the nation’s body politic: political, corporate, social, spiritual and personal. The article is …
Resisting Definitive Interpretation: Seeing The Story Of The Exodus Through Caribbean(ite) Eyes
In this essay an attemptis made to heed theologian David Tracy's call for theology to pay greater attention in all its interpretations to the pluralistic and ambiguous reception of its classic texts, including Exodus (Tracy, 1987: 118). The author will present a reflection from the margins, i.e., the perspective of a woman, a descendant of enslaved Africans from the English-speaking Caribbean—a Caribbean(ite) perspective. “Caribbean(ite)” is a de…
Resisting Definitive Interpretation: Seeing The Story Of The Exodus Through Caribbean(ite) Eyes
In this essay an attemptis made to heed theologian David Tracy's call for theology to pay greater attention in all its interpretations to the pluralistic and ambiguous reception of its classic texts, including Exodus (Tracy, 1987: 118). The author will present a reflection from the margins, i.e., the perspective of a woman, a descendant of enslaved Africans from the English-speaking Caribbean—a Caribbean(ite) perspective. “Caribbean(ite)” is a de…
Distinct but Inseparable”: Church and State in the Writings of Michael Manley
The question of how the and the should relate to each other continues to be an important and enduring one and is answered in a variety of ways. Devon Dick, a Baptist Pastor, identifies five current views on the question in the Jamaican context. Among these views is a fairly sectarian perspective, which holds that the and should be separate because they have two different agendas, and like oil and water, they cannot mix. This sectarian approach co…
Carne Vale (Goodbye to Flesh?): Caribbean Carnival, Notions of the Flesh and Christian Ambivalence about the Body
Moral Dis-ease Making Jamaica Ill? Re-engaging the Conversation on Morality
Using the image of disease, this article argues that the moral misconduct of individual Jamaicans is symptomatic of a larger societal disease, which is making all of us ill to lesser or greater extents. The claim is that Jamaica and Jamaicans are suffering from an ailment in the country’s moral system that has affected all other functioning systems in the nation’s body politic: political, corporate, social, spiritual and personal. The article is …
Just Desert or Just Deserts: God and Suffering in these Perilous Days
This discussion approaches the question of God and human suffering in light of the work of Jamaican theologian Lewin Williams. It demonstrates that Williams rejects notions that suffering is a result of sin (just deserts) or is incapable of being grasped due to its meaningless nature (just desert). Human beings do not live in a just world, but in a tragic one. A tragic vision does not attempt to penetrate the opacity of evil by providing justific…
Mr Gordon met his fate in the religious spirit: A letter, empire, Christianity and the death of George William Gordon
One of the more important letters issuing from the Morant Bay Uprising of 1865 was written by George William Gordon, just before he was hanged on 23 October 1865. An examination of this letter and the circumstances of its writing gives an insight into the workings of Empire in the Caribbean, particularly the implications of the Christian faith for one Native Baptist, who squared off against the corrupt officials of Empire and the local elite. It …
Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies
The article maintains that the theological perspectives of RastafarI continue to be under-researched in the Caribbean context with perhaps more attention being paid to their contributions to the racial, musical and linguistic traditions of the region. In particular, Rasta theodicies are not as clearly articulated as other elements of its belief system even as it is recognised that RastafarI mansions and individual members do not hold homogenous b…
The Poor Feel it the Most: The Antilles Bishops, the Poor, and Climate Change
This discussion examines the critical nexus that the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC) identifies between the poor and climate change. Attention is paid to the AEC's 2015 Declaration on Climate Change, particularly its concern with the unjust impact of climate change on the poor, poor communities, and poor countries, among which are to be found the small-island developing nations and people of the Caribbean. Indeed, the bishops are clear that, …
Human Trafficking Is Modern Day Slavery: Rev. Margaret Fowler, Sex Work and Trafficking
The late Rev. Margaret Fowler, United Church Minister, was a key supporter of LGBTQ rights and a vocal advocate against human trafficking in Jamaica. As the founder of the Theodora Project, Rev. Fowler served many persons coerced into sex work or subject to sexual exploitation. She argued that human trafficking is a complex connection of economy, gender, social dynamics, law, and foreign relations. She called for the Church to be involved in anti…
On/Unstained White dress(es): Afro-Caribbean Female Purity in Sacred Spaces in Three Caribbean Women Poets
There is a white dress – baptismal, communion or confirmation – that appears in select poems of three Caribbean women poets, Jennifer Rahim (Trinidad), M. NourbeSe Philip (Trinidad/Canada) and Barbara Ferland (Jamaica). The dress is intended to be worn by Afro-Caribbean girls in a church, sacred, or sacramental context and speak to matters of purity in the female/girl child who is so clad. At the same time, the dress - spotless or yellowed - expo…
“Secessionist Maroons who have asserted sovereignty”: Accompong Maroons and the Jamaican State today
En 2021, con la elección de un nuevo jefe (el coronel más joven de la historia, con 40 años), las relaciones entre los Accompong Maroons y el gobierno de Jamaica se deterioraron. Bajo el mando del jefe Richard Currie, que se describe a sí mismo como funcionario del gobierno y jefe de Estado, Accompong afirmó su soberanía como el “Estado soberano de Accompong”, con Accompong Town como capital del Cockpit Country. Los cimarrones del Estado de Ac…
Drinking from the Same Well: African and Caribbean Theological Oversights and a Call for Mutual (Re)connection and a Theology of Repair/Remaking
This is a joint reflection by a group of Christian scholars involved with transatlantic (African/Caribbean/British) theological initiatives, tackling questions of engagement and lack thereof between contemporary African and Caribbean Christian scholars. As we have observed/experienced, African and Caribbean scholars evince ‘selective amnesia’ around theologies and lived experiences across the Atlantic despite deep historical ties and shared Afric…
Street Art in Kingston, Jamaica: A Public Performance of Religiosity
This study aims to give street art, especially religious street art, the critical attention it deserves. A sample of visual images present in various inner-city communities of Kingston, Jamaica, is considered, taking account of the analysis of Jaffe, Rhiney and Francis. It focuses on the uses of popular art to institutionalize criminal governance structures through the iconization of local area leaders known as “dons” by aesthetic fashioning that…
Confronting the Hidden Dimensions of the Moral Life: A Caribbean Catholic Contribution
This article contributes to the reimagining of Roman Catholic ethics in the twenty-first century, building on the research of Sweeny Block, who argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life play a decisive role in moral agency. By taking account of the work of researchers in moral psychology, the traditional boundaries of moral theology can be reimagined to give a more accurate accounting of moral agency, leading to improved work in mo…
Politics Without a Party: Interrogating RastafarI Ethics of Political (Dis)engagement (in the 21st Century)
This discussion explores the (dis)engagement of Jamaican RastafarI from the party political process, using RastafarI elder Mortimo Planno's notion of "politics without a party" as a strand shaping and tying together the multiple threads of the exploration. The discussion examines how RastafarI has engaged with partisan politics/political parties from Independence (1962) until today. It highlights the differing ways of approaching politics among R…
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