Rastafarianism

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• Part Rastafarian preacher, part black historian, more than any other roots artist, Burning Spear has illuminated Rastafarianism in song, sharing his beliefs with an avid public.

• And his was a generation that helped thrust a mythic "Africa" to the forefront of black popular culture in the West Indies and, via reggae music and Rastafarianism, the world.

  Academic text (1994)

• Rastafarianism made a lot of sense too, at least the way I-Man explained it.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The two paintings of Marcus Mosiah Garvey also reference some of the philosophical roots of Rastafarianism.

  Academic text (2004)

• (Quick reminder that Rastafarianism comes from Ras Tafari, the title of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie.)

  Blog text (29)

• More than half of my respondents pointed to the pervasive influence of Ethiopian culture on reggae music and their country's association with Rastafarianism, a religious movement that originated in Jamaica in the 1930s.

  Academic text (2003)

• "Inroads made by Islam (and by extension, by Mormonism and Rastafarianism) tell me that Haiti is very much a product of this century, subject to all winds, ill-winds and otherwise, that blow over the Caribbean nation-states," Bellegarde-Smith wrote in an email.

  Blog text (9)

• Many people study Rastafarianism to understand its cultural impact on music and spirituality.

Synonyms

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Rastafari

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A religious and cultural movement from Jamaica that sees Haile Selassie as holy and uses dreadlocks and reggae music

focuses mainly on doctrinal belief in a messiah figure and a promised African homeland

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