2 Aralık 2008 Salı

Rastafari movement


i've recently learned a new religion movement called Rastafarian movement.It's a really interesting religion rooted in Ethiopia.There are several definitions and rumours about this religion.The most interesting thing i've learned is that the rasta hairstyle is used by Rastafarian people and it symbolizes this religion.Did you know that it was symbolizing an religion?I was just thinking that people have their hari rasta only because it looks eyecatching or something.Now i want to give you some more infomartion about this movement.
The Rastafari movement (also known as Rastafari, Rastafarianism or simply Rasta) is a monotheistic, Abrahamic, new religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah or Jah Rastafari. Haile Selassie is also seen as part of the Holy Trinity and as the returned messiah promised in the Bible.
Other characteristics of Rastafari include the spiritual use of cannabis, rejection of western society (called "Babylon"), and various Afrocentric social and political aspirations, such as the teachings of Jamaican publicist, organizer, and black separatist Marcus Garvey (also often regarded as a prophet), whose political and cultural vision helped inspire Leonard Howell to develop the foundations of this new world view.
The name Rastafari comes from Ras (literally "Head," an Ethiopian title equivalent to Duke), and Tafari Makonnen, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. Rastafari is commonly called "Rastafarianism," by some academics, but this term is considered derogatory and offensive by Rastas themselves.

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Onur Deniz dedi ki...

This was very interesting information.Their hairstyle is very strange.Again we see people do whatever their religion says without judging it.