Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism

Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalm 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the earl ...

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• Rastafari movement - Doctrines
• Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism
• Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible
• Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race
• Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity
• Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality
• Rastafari movement - Homosexuality
• Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine
• Rastafari movement - Politics
• Rastafari movement - Language
• Rastafari movement - -isms
• Rastafari movement - Ceremonies
• Rastafari movement - Symbols
• Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks
• Rastafari movement - Ganja
• Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement
• Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey
• Rastafari movement - Early written foundations
• Rastafari movement - Early years
• Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica
• Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney
• Rastafari movement - Music
• Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording
• Rastafari movement - Reggae
• Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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Rastafari developed amongst very poor people, who felt society had nothing to offer them except more suffering. Rastas see themselves as conforming to a vision of how Africans should live, reclaiming what they see as a culture stolen from them when they were brought on slave ships to Jamaica, birthplace of the movement. The doctrines of Rastafari depart radically from the norms of the modern western mind, something encouraged deliberately by the Rastas themselves. Unlike many modern religious and Christian groups that tend to stress c ...

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By the end of the 20th century, women had become more important in the functioning of the Rastafari movement. In the early years, menstruating women were often subordinated to their husbands and excluded from religious and social ceremonies. To a large degree, women feel more freedom to express themselves now, thus they enjoy much greater freedom of self-expression, and contribute greatly to the religion. Rastafari is not a highly organized religion. In fact, some Rastas say that it is not a "religion" at all, but a "way of Life". Mos ...

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Music has long played an integral role in Rastafari, and the connection between the movement and various kinds of music has become well known, due to the international fame of musicians like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. Nyabinghi music is the most integral form of Rastafarian music. It is played at worship ceremonies called grounations, that include drumming, chanting and dancing, along with prayer and smoking of ritual ganja. The name Nyabinghi comes from an East African movement from the 1850s to the 1950s that was led b ...

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Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey. Rastas see Marcus Garvey as a prophet, even a second John the Baptist according to some. One of the most famous prophecies attributed to him involving the coronation of Haile Selassie I was the 1927 pronouncement "Look to Africa, for there a king shall be crowned," though an associate of Garvey's, James Morris Webb, had made very similar public statements as early as 1921.[2][3] Marcus Garvey promoted Pan-Africanism, the belief that all black people of the world should join in ...

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Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Doctrines, Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism, Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible, Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race, Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity, Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality, Rastafari movement - Homosexuality, Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine, Rastafari movement - Politics, Rastafari movement - Language, Rastafari movement - -isms, Rastafari movement - Ceremonies, Rastafari movement - Symbols, Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks, Rastafari movement - Ganja, Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey, Rastafari movement - Early written foundations, Rastafari movement - Early years, Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica, Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney, Rastafari movement - Music, Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording, Rastafari movement - Reggae, Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks. The wearing of dreadlocks is very closely associated with the movement, though not universal among (or exclusive to) its adherents. Rastas believe dreadlocks to be supported by Leviticus 21:5 ("They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in the flesh.") and the Nazarite vow in Numbers 6.5-6. Part of the reason the hairstyle was adopted was to contrast the kinky long hair of ...

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Rastafari culture does not encourage mainstream political involvement. In fact, in the early stages of the movement most Rastas did not vote, out of principle. Ras Sam Brown formed the Suffering People's Party for the elections of 1961. Although he received fewer than 100 votes, simply standing for election was a powerful act. In the election campaign of 1972, People's National Party leader, Michael Manley used a prop, a walking stick given to him by Haile Selassie, which was called the "Rod of Correct ...

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Rastas believe that their original African languages were stolen from them when they were taken into captivity as part of the slave trade, and that English is an imposed colonial language. Their remedy for this situation has been the creation of a modified vocabulary and dialect, reflecting their desire to take forward language and to confront the society they call Babylon. Rastafari movement - -isms. Rastafari claim to reject "-isms". They see a wide range of "isms and schisms" in modern society and want ...

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Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Doctrines, Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism, Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible, Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race, Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity, Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality, Rastafari movement - Homosexuality, Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine, Rastafari movement - Politics, Rastafari movement - Language, Rastafari movement - -isms, Rastafari movement - Ceremonies, Rastafari movement - Symbols, Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks, Rastafari movement - Ganja, Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey, Rastafari movement - Early written foundations, Rastafari movement - Early years, Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica, Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney, Rastafari movement - Music, Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording, Rastafari movement - Reggae, Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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There are two types of Rasta religious ceremonies. A reasoning is a simple event where the Rastas gather; smoke "ganja" (marijuana); and discuss ethical, social and religious issues. The person honored by being allowed to light the herb says a short prayer before doing so, and it is always passed in a clockwise fashion. A binghi or grounation is a holiday; the word binghi is believed to refer originally to an ancient, and now extinct, order of militant blacks in eastern Africa that vowed to end oppression. Binghis are marked by much dancing, singing, feasting and the ...

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Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Doctrines, Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism, Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible, Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race, Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity, Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality, Rastafari movement - Homosexuality, Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine, Rastafari movement - Politics, Rastafari movement - Language, Rastafari movement - -isms, Rastafari movement - Ceremonies, Rastafari movement - Symbols, Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks, Rastafari movement - Ganja, Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey, Rastafari movement - Early written foundations, Rastafari movement - Early years, Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica, Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney, Rastafari movement - Music, Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording, Rastafari movement - Reggae, Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey. Rastas see Marcus Garvey as a prophet, even a second John the Baptist according to some. One of the most famous prophecies attributed to him involving the coronation of Haile Selassie I was the 1927 pronouncement "Look to Africa, for there a king shall be crowned," though an associate of Garvey's, James Morris Webb, had made very similar public statements as early as 1921.[1][2] Marcus Garvey promoted Pan-Africanism, the belief that all black people of the world should join in ...

See also:

Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Doctrines, Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism, Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible, Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race, Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity, Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality, Rastafari movement - Homosexuality, Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine, Rastafari movement - Politics, Rastafari movement - Language, Rastafari movement - -isms, Rastafari movement - Ceremonies, Rastafari movement - Symbols, Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks, Rastafari movement - Ganja, Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement, Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey, Rastafari movement - Early written foundations, Rastafari movement - Early years, Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica, Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney, Rastafari movement - Music, Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording, Rastafari movement - Reggae, Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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