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  2. Rastafari views on gender and sexuality - Wikipedia

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    Attitudes to women within Rastafari have changed since the 1970s, with a growing "womanist" movement, and increasing numbers of women in leadership positions at local and international levels. [1] [2] However, women remain a minority in the movement, and are often expected to abide by patriarchal gender roles. [3]

  3. Rastafari - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Religion originating in 1930s Jamaica Rastafari often claim the flag of the Ethiopian Royal Standard as was used during Haile Selassie's reign. It combines the conquering lion of Judah, symbol of the Ethiopian monarchy, with red, gold, and green. Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion that ...

  4. Rastafari movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A number of Rastafari see the country as the heart of evil in the world, but many Jamaican Rastafari made the United States their new home during the 1960s and 1970s. The Rastafari movement played a role in shaping local U.S. society and culture, seen in Garvey's accomplishments, the effects of Rastafari community-building, and riddim and ...

  5. Book Review: Poet recalls stormy life growing up Rastafari in ...

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    It is unusual to find one as powerful and disturbing as Safiya Sinclair’s debut memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” which has already drawn comparisons to Tara Westover’s “Educated” and Mary ...

  6. Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and ...

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    On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana.

  7. Rasta views on race - Wikipedia

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    The Rastafari movement began among Afro-Jamaicans who wanted to reject the British colonial culture that dominated Jamaica and replace it with a new identity based on a reclamation of their African heritage. [2] Barnett says that Rastafari aims to overcome the belief in the inferiority of black people, and the superiority of white people. [3]

  8. Archibald Dunkley - Wikipedia

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    Henry Archibald Dunkley was, along with Leonard Howell, Joseph Hibbert, and Robert Hinds, one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica following the coronation of Ras Tafari as Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia on 2 November 1930.

  9. Persecution of Rastafari - Wikipedia

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    The first Rastafari to appear in a court was Leonard Howell in Jamaica in 1934 who was charged with sedition for refusing to accept George V of the United Kingdom as his King, instead insisting that he was only loyal to Haile Selassie and the Ethiopian Empire. He was found guilty and sentenced to several years in prison. [1]