RELIGIONS
RASTAFARI
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Question
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Bob Marley
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Leonard Howell
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No one knows who the founder is
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Marcus Garvey
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rastafari has its roots in the philosophy of Marcus Garvey. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on the 17th of August 1887, in Jamaica. His teachings of black self empowerment are credited as being the sources behind the founding of the religion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emperor Haile Selassie (1892-1975), who was crowned ‘King of Kings’ in Addis Ababa in 1930, was believed in Ethiopia to have been chosen by God. The Rastafarians in Jamaica even ‘recognised’ him as their Messiah and God.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “Rastafari” derives from “Ras Tafari Makonnen", the pre-regnal title of the late Haile Selassie, the former Ethiopian emperor who occupies a central role in Rasta belief. The term “Ras” means a duke or prince in the Ethiopian Semitic languages; “Tafari Makonnen” was Selassie’s personal name.