Rastafarian

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At the end of the 20th century, women have played a more important role in the Rastafari movement. In its early years, women who are menstruating should submit to their husbands and excluded from religious ceremonies and social. In general, women felt a greater freedom in expressing themselves now. Thus they contribute a greater role is also to religion.Rastafari is not a highly organized religion. In fact, some Rastas say that it was not a "religion", but rather a "way of life". Most Rastas do not identify themselves with any sect or denomination, though there are three prominent palaces Rastafari: Nyahbinghi, Bobo Ashanti and the Twelve Tribes of Israel. By claiming Well as a second coming of Jesus, Rastafari is a new religious movement which emerged from Christianity, the Christian faith as the religion of Judaism emerged.In 1996, Rastafari movement around the world have consultative status with the United Nations.
The Rastafari
Rastafari movement believes that the end times began with the coronation of Haile Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930, and that he would soon declare himself as God. The Rastafarians have a unique interpretation of the end times, which is based on the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation. They believe Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was God incarnate, the King of kings and Lord of lords mentioned in Revelation 5:5. While on the one hand the coronation of Selassie is seen as the second coming of Christ, and events such as the Italian-Ethiopian War Both seen as fulfillment of biblical prophecies and Revelation in particular, there is also expectation that Selassie will call the Day of Judgement, when he took return the children of Israel who have lost (the blacks who were brought out of Africa during the slave trade) to live with him in peace, love and perfect harmony on Mount Zion in Africa. Mount Zion is not a place, but the Rastas believe that they will live there with Selassie in the physical sense. There they will never die.
Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a new religious movement that recognizes the Haile Selassie I, former Ethiopian emperors, as the King of kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Well (the Rastafari name for God, which is a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalm 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Tafari, Haile Selassie I's name before he was crowned emperor. This movement emerged in Jamaica among the black working class and peasants in the early 1930's, which comes from an interpretation of Bible prophecy, social and political aspirations of blacks, and the teachings of their prophet, a publisher and organizer of Jamaican blacks, Marcus Garvey, a political and cultural vision helped create a join a new worldview.
This movement is sometimes called "Rastafarianisme"; but this is considered inappropriate and offend a lot of the Rastas. Rastafari movement has spread in many places did Unia, especially through immigration and interest engendered by Nyahbinghi music and reggae music, particularly Bob Marley, who was baptized with the name Berhane Selassie (Light of Trinity) by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church before he died, a move that is also taken later by his widow, Rita. In 2000, there were more than one million Rastafari worldwide. Approximately 5-10% of the population identify themselves as Rastafari Jamaica. Most of the Rastafarian vegetarian or eat only certain types of meat. In the U.S. there are so many West Indian vegetarian restaurant, which provides food of Jamaica.
Doctrine
Rastafari developed amongst very poor people, who feel that society does not want to help them except make them suffer more. Rastas see themselves as penggenap a vision of how Africans should live. Meerka take back what they perceive as a culture that has been stolen from them when brought on slave ships to Jamaica, birthplace of this movement.
Rastafari doctrine is very different from the norms of modern western thought. This was deliberate by the Rastas themselves. Unlike many modern religious and Christian groups that tend to emphasize conformity with the "powers that be", Rastafari conversely emphasizes loyalty to their concept of "Zion" and the rejection of modern society ("Babylon"). "Babylon" in this case considered to be rebelling against "the World Ruler True" (YAH) since the days of Nimrod.
"The way life is" not merely given intellectual meaning, or "belief" as it is commonly termed. It is a matter of knowing or discovering the true identity of ourselves. Follow and worship YAH Rastafari is to find, deploy and "take" the way in which people have been born with the truth.
This belief is difficult to categorize, because Rastafari is not a centralized organization. Each Rastafari seek the truth for himself, so consequently there are various beliefs that got under the big umbrella called Rastafari.
Afrosentrisme
Socially, Rastafari is a response to racist negation of black people as experienced in Jamaica, when in the 1930s, black people are at the lowest level of social order, while the white people and their religion (mostly Christian) are on top. Prompts Marcus Garvey that black people are proud of themselves and their warnisan inspired the Rastas to embrace all things African. They teach that they were brainwashed while in captivity to deny everything that is related to blacks and Africa. They turned their racist image and consider it primitive and direct from the forest and instead embrace it - even though it's the opposite - and make these concepts as part of African culture that they consider to have been stolen from them when they were brought from Africa in slave ships . Close to nature and to the African savanna and lions, in spirit, if not in body, is their central ideas about African culture.
Living close to nature and become a part of nature is seen as African. African approach to "live close to nature" is seen in the dreadlocks, ganja (marijuana), Ital food, and in all aspects of life sense. They loathe the approach (or, as they see it, non-approach) against modern life for being unnatural and excessively objective and rejecting subjectivity. Rastas say that scientists try to discover how the world looks from the outside, while the approach is to see life from the inside out. Individuals get a very important position in Rastafari, and every Rasta must seek the truth for himself.
Identify other important Afrosentris is the color red, gold, and green, the color of the flag of Ethiopia. These colors are the symbol of the Rastafari movement, and the sense of loyalty towards Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, and Africa and not to any modern country in which they happen to live. These colors are frequently seen on clothing and other decorations. Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs, green symbolizes the vegetation of Africa, while gold symbolizes wealth and prosperity Africa has to offer. (Conversely, some Ethiopian scholars claim that the colors are derived from an old saying that the belt of the Virgin Mary is the rainbow, and that the color red, gold, and green symbol of this.
Many of the followers of Rastafari attempt to learn Amharic, which they consider to be the original language, because this is the language that is used Haile Selassie I, and to identify themselves as Ethiopian-though in practice, most Rastas continue to speak English or their native languages. There is also a reggae songs written in Amharic.