• The Rastafari movement developed out of the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade, in which over ten million Africans were enslaved and transported to the...
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    Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious...
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    Mansions of Rastafari is an umbrella term for the various groups of the Rastafari movement. Such groups include the Bobo Ashanti, the Niyabinghi, the Twelve...
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  • Persecution of members of the Rastafari movement, an Abrahamic religion founded in Jamaica in the early 1930s among Afro-Jamaican communities, has been...
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    Ntozake (2014). "Rastafari as Afrocentrically Based Discourse and Spiritual Expression". Rastafari in the New Millennium: A Rastafari Reader. Syracuse...
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  • Iyaric (redirect from Rastafari vocabulary)
    of language constructed by members of the Rastafari movement through alteration of vocabulary. When Africans were taken into captivity as a part of the...
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    he is accorded divine importance in Rastafari, a relatively new Abrahamic religion that emerged in the Colony of Jamaica in the 1930s. A few years before...
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  • Retrieved 21 July 2020. Francis, Wigmoore (30 June 2013). "Towards a Pre-History of Rastafari". Caribbean Quarterly. 59 (2): 51–72. doi:10.1080/00086495.2013.11672483...
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    Zion (redirect from Daughter of Zion)
    Wailers In Rastafari, "Zion" stands for a utopian place of unity, peace and freedom, as opposed to "Babylon", the oppressing and exploiting system of the materialistic...
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    apparently coined it in 1959 as a reference to their "dread", or fear, of God. Rastafari developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, decades before the Mau Mau rebellion...
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  • The Rastafari movement in the United States echoes the Rastafari religious movement, which began in Jamaica and Ethiopia during the 1930s. Marcus Garvey...
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  • 1998) was a Jamaican Rastafari elder. He was well known in Kingston for his politics after he participated in the elections of 1961 with his Suffering...
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    Chillum (category Culture of India)
    the stem. The style of pipe spread to Africa, and has been known in the Americas since the 1960s. A chillum pipe is used in Rastafari rituals. According...
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  • Calling Rastafari is a studio album by Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear. It was released on August 24, 1999 through Heartbeat Records. Recording sessions...
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    The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. It overlaps or coincides with the development...
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  • Jah (category Rastafari)
    is frequently employed by adherents of Rastafari to refer to God. The name of the national god of the kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah is written...
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    The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe...
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  • Church (Kingston), and St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church (Trelawny). The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s...
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    concerned the constitutionality of criminalising cannabis given Rastafaris' constitutional right to freedom of religion. A majority of the court held that the...
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    Pan-African colours (category Rastafari)
    similarly used as a symbol by many Pan-African organisations and the Rastafari movement. Red, black, and green, first introduced by Marcus Garvey in...
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  • Nyabinghi rhythm (category Music of Jamaica)
    Niyabinghi, Niyahbinghi, is the gathering of Rastafari people to celebrate and commemorate key dates significant to Rastafari throughout the year. It is essentially...
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    Peter Tosh (category Converts to the Rastafari movement)
    of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari....
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    Kumina Myal Obeah Rastafari Bobo Ashanti Nyabinghi Twelve Tribes of Israel Dugu Sansé Espiritismo Kélé Obeah Winti Obeah Rastafari Spiritual Baptist Trinidad...
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    The history of Christianity follows the Christian religion as it developed from its earliest beliefs and practices in the first-century, spread geographically...
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  • The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in...
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  • Cuba – 5 March 2006, Kingston, Jamaica) was a renowned Rastafari elder, drummer and a follower of the back-to-Africa movement founded in the 1910s by Marcus...
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    to Rastafari. Around this time, Marley relocated to London, and the group embodied their musical shift with the release of the album The Best of The...
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    Chalice (pipe) (category Rastafari)
    of cannabis smoking pipe used most often by members of the Jamaican Rastafari movement. It is a type of water pipe used for smoking. It is a type of water...
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  • Nyabinghi (category Rastafari)
    20th century, the name "Nyabinghi" was adopted by practitioners of Jamaican Rastafari, was adopted for their gatherings and later as a drumming style...
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    the nation's public image, being tied to cultural touchstones such as Rastafari and reggae music. Ganja tourists have been welcomed in the 21st century...
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