Society: Inside the Rastafari Movement

Some call them Rastafarians, but they prefer to be called Rastafari. The Rastafari Movement is one of the latest religious blocs that arose in a Christian culture of Jamaica in the 1930s.The name Rastafarian comes from ‘Ras Tafari’ the pre-regnal title of Emplor Haile Selassie I. ‘Ras’, literally means ‘Head’ in Ethiopian Amharic language, and Tafari is the Selassie’s birth name.
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