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rastafarian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | cult |
rastafarian:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | rasta |
Examples of rastafarian
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Rastafarian music is not the only kind of religious music in the Caribbean.
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Rastafarian and Black pride influences are also common.
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Malawian reggae band, The Black Missionaries, continues to propagate the rastafarian culture and issues in Malawi.
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There, after ten years'gradual career ascent, he was at the peak of his powers, swept up with rastafarian fervour, and with the political chaos back home in Jamaica.
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- Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Rastafarianism or Rastafarians
- (Ethiopia) adherents of an African religion that regards Ras Tafari as divine
- (rastafarianism) a religious cult based on a belief that Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie) is the Messiah and that Africa (especially Ethiopia) is the Promised Land
- (rastafari) (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
- (The Rastafarians) The Rastafarians was a California-based reggae group founded by Jamaican natives Michael Ashley aka Haile Maskel (bass and lead vocals) and Patrick Houchen aka Shaka Man (drums and lead vocals), and Californian Herb Daly (guitar) in Santa Cruz, California in 1980. ...
- (Rastafarianism) A religion that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s out of biblical prophecy and rising black aspirations
- (Rastafarianism) A new religious movement centered among persons of African origin in Jamaica and the U.S. They revere the late Emperor Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975), as the Elect of God and savior of the black race. They regard black people to be the reincarnation of Israel in the Bible.
- (Rastafari) is a movement of Black people who know Africa as the birthplace of Mankind and the throne of Emperor Haile Selassie I -- a 20th Century Manifestation of God who has lighted our pathway towards righteousness, and is therefore worthy of reverence.
- An Afro-Christian revivalist cult formed in Jamaica in the early 1920s. The so-called Rastafarian Brethren emphasized rejection of both Jamaican and European culture in favor of eventual repatriation to Africa. ...
