Person

Owens, Joseph

1940

Joseph Owens, S.J. (Father Joseph Owens) is a Roman Catholic priest, social worker, and educator who has worked for many years in the Caribbean and Central America. He is the author of Dread, The Rastafarians of Jamaica (1974), written from 1970 to 1972 while working and living with members of the Rastafari movement in Kingston, Jamaica, during which period he discussed theological and philosophical issues with them in order to write a book examining their beliefs in relation to Judaism, Christianity and the Bible ... Catalog of the Provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States of America, 2012: page 393 (Owens, Joseph V.; born December 21, 1940) page 197 (writer and translator for the Institute of Jesuit Sources)