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Rastafari, Ras Tafari
(ˌræstəˈfɑːrɪ; locally also ˌrastafaˈrai)
Also Rastafaria.
[f. the name Ras Tafari (cf. ras), by which Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892–1975) was known from 1916 until his accession in 1930.]
A Jamaican sect which believes that Blacks are the chosen people, that the late Emperor Haile Selassie is God Incarnate, and that he will secure their repatriation to their homeland in Africa. Also pl., the members of this sect, and attrib. So Rastaˈfarinism, Rastaˈfarism, Ras Taˈfarism; Rastaˈfarite, a member of this sect.
1953F. Henriques Family & Colour in Jamaica iii. 62 The current expositors of black consciousness in Jamaica are a group of people who call themselves Ras Tafarites. 1955G. E. Simpson in Social & Econ. Stud. (Kingston, Jamaica) IV. ii. 133 The Ras Tafari movement began to take shape about 1930. Ibid. 137 Among the favourite chapters of the Ras Tafaris are: Isaiah 43. Ibid. 146 Ras Tafarism provides explanations of their plight to economically disadvantaged people. 1960Guardian 12 Apr. 9/3 The ‘Rastafari’ cult, who have long, matted hair and beards and believe that the drug marihuana..is ordained by the Bible for man's use. 1962Listener 22 Feb. 345/1 The ‘uppressors’..go off into weirdness such as Rastafarinism. 1962Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 578/4 The surcharge of an equally false nationalistic fantasy, at its most absurd and dangerous in the ‘Rastafarism’ of Jamaica with its worship of Haile Selassie and its slogan ‘Death to the Whites’. 1965I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun iii. 41 He has groups of admirers (e.g. the Rastafari in Jamaica). 1973Caribbean Contact Feb. 15/1 The Rastafaria brethren, too, who venerate Haile Selassie I and who keenly look foward to repatriation to their lost homeland of Africa, remain today faithful Garveyites. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Jan. 9/5 Inadequate housing and insufficient jobs [in Kingston, Jamaica]..also contributed to the rise of the Ras Tafari with their dreams of escape to Africa. |