Introduction
1. Explaining Rastafari ethnogenesis: a framework
2. Initial conditions: converging streams of moral black consciousness in Jamaica and elites' fear of black supremacy
3. Vectors, collisions, contention: collective identity formation, 1930-34
4. Rastafari on trial, 1934: expounding the Rastafari doctrine
5. Conflict and retreat: sinking cultural roots
6. The menace becomes dreadful: Rastafari flex their muscle
7. Of beards, insurrection, and rehabilitation: social paranoia and Reverend Claudius Henry's disruptions
8. The report on the Rastafari: its effects and concealed motives
9. Growing influence brings growing pains: unification and fragmentation tussle
10. New challenges for the Rastafari: assault on the House of David, commodification of Rastafari culture, and gender
Conclusion.