TY - BOOK AU - Rogers,Robert Athlyi TI - The Holy Piby AV - BL PY - 2020/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - African Americans -- Religion KW - Afro Athlican Constructive Church -- Sacred books KW - Rastafari movement -- Sacred books KW - Black people -- West Indies -- Religion N1 - Also known as: The Black Man's Bible; Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Piby; Release date is 2020-04-27; Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, Dr. Charles Price, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Holy Piby" by Robert Athlyi Rogers is a religious text written in the 1920s. Created for an Afrocentric religion in the West Indies, it presents Africans as God's chosen people and preaches self-reliance and self-determination. The work identifies Marcus Garvey and other prominent figures as divine apostles. Though not originally a Rastafari text, it became a foundational document that profoundly influenced the Rastafari movement's theology and vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61962 ER -