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Sep 7, 2024 · Rastafari, religious and political movement, begun in Jamaica in the 1930s and adopted by many groups around the globe, that combines Protestant Christianity, mysticism, and a pan-African political consciousness. Rastas, as members of the movement are called, see their past, present, and future in a distinct way.
- Pan-Africanism
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- Leviticus
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- Beards and Dreadlocks
- Dread Talk
- Reggae and Internationalization
- Livity
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The emergence of the Rastafari needs to be understood in the context of a society with a long history of deep racial divisions based on a brutally prosecuted enslavement of Africans by the British, an equally long history of some of the fiercest resistance seen in the Americas, and the culture-building imperative of the Africans centered around a n...
On October 6, 1963, Haile Selassie addressed the United Nationswith praise, criticism, and deep sincerity. He proclaimed, "It is the sacred duty of this Organization to ensure that the dream of equality is finally realized for all men to whom it is still denied, to guarantee that exploitation is not reincarnated in other forms in places whence it h...
Rastafari tenets have been a function of its interaction and response to society. Initially, the main focus of its new prophets was preaching allegiance to the "King of Kings," a black man, and the reincarnation of the messiah. This often brought Rastafarians into confrontation with the colonial state, especially in the tense years leading up to Wo...
Another important innovation was dread talk: homonyms, inversions, and other wordplay elevated to the level of philosophy. The central word is I, the singular first-person pronoun. The power of I transforms the objectified and possessive self (you, me, yours, mine) into a singular subject of unity or I nity—I an' I ; breathes new life into others—I...
During the 1960s and 1970s, Rastafari embraced the youths alienated by the unfulfilled hopes of national independence in 1962. Rastafari gave them its philosophy of an integrated black self and a vision of an end to the historic injustice done to the children of Africa. The movement received in return their creative energy and passion. The young pe...
A common thread running through all the movement's various groups is the naturalistic style of living called livity. Livity refers to a life in harmony with nature as created by God and in avoidance of manmade intrusions into that order. Thus, Rastafari favor a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, and nuts, and avoid processed and packaged fo...
Founded in the 1930s, Rastafari has taken its current shape from developments of the 1950s, which saw the emergence of dreadlocks. Rastafari continues its growth in the twenty-first century in response to the opportunities offered by the communications revolution and other aspects of globalization. See also Garvey, Marcus; Myal; Revivalism
Chevannes, Barry. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994. Chevannes, Barry, ed. Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Hausman, Gerald, ed. The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica. New York: St. ...
Rastafari often claim the flag of the Ethiopian Royal Standard as was used during Haile Selassie's reign. It combines the conquering lion of Judah, symbol of the Ethiopian monarchy, with red, gold, and green. Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a ...
May 31, 2017 · In the late 1940s, a radical version of Rastafarianism, known as the Youth Black Faith, emerged from the slums of the Jamaican capital of Kingston. A precursor to the existing Nyahbinghi Mansion ...
May 14, 2018 · The Rastafari movement began shortly after the coronation, in November 1930, of Ras (Prince) Tafari Makonnen as Emperor Haile Selassie. Claiming descent from King Solomon of Jerusalem and the Queen of Sheba, Selassie took the imperial titles "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah," which a few Jamaicans saw as ...
Spread the love. In Amharic language, the word Ras, literally means “head”. It is an Ethiopian title equivalent to prince or chief. The personal given name Täfäri (teferi) means one who is respected or feared. Thus Ras Tafari means Chief Dread or the Head Dread. This is the first earthly name of Emperor Haile Selassie I.
A cult which spread from the West Indies to both the USA and the UK among young Blacks during the 1980s. It sees the (deposed) Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (born Ras Tafari Mekonnen), as symbolically the rightful protector of African civilization and the representative of the true message of the Gospels.
