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The globalisation of reggae continues to engender a wide range of highly poignant re-inscriptions and re-interpretations of reggae's sound and of Rastafarian thought. One of the most compelling of these has been the negotiation of Rastafarian and Christian ideologies within the context of Protestant reggae bands and artists. The application of Rastafarian thought, dress and language to the evangelical concerns of Protestants – at times paradoxical, at others ingenious – signals an important moment of inter-religious contact that opens a window onto the complexities and multiple meanings that attach to music and to religious systems as they travel between the local and the global. This essay considers music by Christafari (United States), Sherwin Gardner (Trinidad and Tobago), and Stitchie (Jamaica), and considers questions related to the parallel globalisation of reggae and Rastafari. It does this by interrogating the extent to which authenticity, positionality, and religious context inform the use of and interpretation of Rastafari symbols within gospel reggae. In so doing, I introduce a concept that I call the negotiation of proximity, and offer some reflections on the ways that the Rastafari elements within gospel reggae might be understood in new, global (and newly localised) contexts.

In essence, the new law says that Californians must be warned in a ''clear and reasonable'' way if exposed to chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects. The chemicals can occur anywhere: not just in food, but in the workplace, in the home or at the gasoline station. No warning is required if it can be proved that ''no significant risk'' is presented by a carcinogen or that chemicals causing birth defects would show ''no observable effect'' at 1,000 times the level of exposure. The real question is, is the amount of arsenic in that food safe or not? If it's not safe it shouldn't be sold. If it is safe, it should be sold and you shouldn't scare a consumer by saying, ''Oh, by the way, there's a little bit of harmless arsenic.'' Mr. [Sherwin Gardner]: We're waiting to see how the ''naturally occurring'' rule will work in practice. People have been making cheese and cooking steak and other foods for centuries. You can't make bread without forming a little bit of alcohol. You can't make cheese without forming a little bit of acetaldehyde.