An Analysis of the Rastafarian Religion (756 words, 3 pages)
Ras TafariRastafarianism began as a religion of the dispossessed. In 1930, a prophecy of deliverancewas fulfilled for Jamaicas slum-dwellers and rural poor. Ethiopia symbolized Africa and thehomeland for the slave-descended Jamaicans. Ras Tafari Makennen, in 1930, became EmperorHaile Selassie of Ethiopia. Emperor Selassie claimed to be a direct descendent of ...
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