![]() ![]() ![]() The Romantic fascination with ‘exotic’ cultures and authentic spiritualities has resulted in modern, secular, individuals championing hierarchical, radically undemocratic societies, and valorising and defending hereditary rulers, when these phenomena manifest in a religious context, and present as precious cultural and spiritual heritages threatened with extinction. Yet the Enlightenment’s shadow, the Romantic movement, which championed emotion, instinct, and experience over the philosophes’ rationality and empiricism, continues to exert power in the late capitalist marketplace of the contemporary West. The contemporary West is a liberal, technological and democratic society in which traditional religion and authority have been in decline since the intellectual championing of reason during the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Rastafarianism and Tibetan Buddhism (as received in the West) share a number of curious traits that are worthy of examination. ![]()
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