( Rastafari movement )

* Rastafari movement

* 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.

* Grounation Day ( Rastafari movement )

The Rastafari claimed Selassie as God incarnate before and even more so after the Second World War ( see Rastafari movement ) because of his bravery in The Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the way he saved his country and his amazing speech to League of Nations.

* Rastafari movement

The dreadlocks of the Rastafari movement were despised early in the movement's history.

* Birthday of Haile Selassie ( Rastafari movement )

* Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia is regarded to be the Messiah by followers of the Rastafari movement.

* Coronation of Haile Selassie ( Rastafari movement )

In addition to retaining many mod influences, early skinheads were very interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and early reggae ( before the tempo slowed down and lyrics became focused on topics like black nationalism and the Rastafari movement ).

* 1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ' Messiah ' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

Major faiths that incorporate ritual washing ( ablution ) include Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Rastafari movement, Shinto, Taoism, and Wicca.

The Rastafari movement, or Rasta is a spiritual movement.

Members of the Rastafari movement are known as Rastas, or Rastafari.

The Rastafari movement encompasses themes such as the spiritual use of cannabis and the rejection of western society, called Babylon ( from the metaphorical Babylon of the Christian New Testament ).

Rastafari is not a highly organized religion ; it is a movement and an ideology.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

Some individuals and religious groups, for example, retain beliefs or practices which involve acts contrary to established law, such as the use of cannabis by members of the Rastafari movement, the religious use of eagle feathers by non-Native Americans ( contrary to the eagle feather law, 50 CFR 22 ), or the practice of polygamy amongst Mormons in the 19th century.

Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.

The Rastafari movement views Haile Selassie I as God incarnate, who has come the second time as a deliverer.

Many Rastas do not claim any sect or denomination, and thus encourage one another to find faith and inspiration within themselves, although some do identify strongly with one of the " mansions of Rastafari " — the three most prominent of these being the Nyahbinghi, the Bobo Ashanti and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Beta Israel black Jews have lived in Ethiopia for centuries, disconnected from the rest of Judaism ; their existence has given some impetus to Rastafari, as they believe it validates their assertion that Ethiopia is Zion.

The death of Haile Selassie I is a topic of some debate amongst Rastafari.

Groups advocating some version of it include Nation of Islam, the New Black Panther Party, the Black Hebrew Israelites and the Bobo Shanti section of the Rastafari movement.

On religious issues, punk is mostly atheist or agnostic, but some punk bands have promoted religions such as Christianity, Islam, the Rastafari movement or Krishna.

They are one of the few contemporary metal bands who take their lyrical influence from some references to the Rastafari culture.

While it is not necessary to use cannabis to be a Rastafari, some feel that they use it regularly as a part of their faith, and pipes of cannabis are always dedicated to His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I before being smoked.

Like the Rastafari, some modern Christian sects have asserted that cannabis is the Tree of Life.

The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church is a mansion of the Rastafari movement that flourished in the 1970s in Jamaica and was incorporated in Florida in 1975.

Some Christians are offended because Mohr and other band members wear dreadlocks and sing in a style typically associated with Rastafari.

Many Rastafari who use cannabis as a sacrement, identify as Oriental Orthodox Christians.

* The ancient Zoroastrians and modern Rastafari consider cannabis to be the Tree of Life.

** Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, and did not consider himself divine, but the Rastafari movement in Jamaica saw him as the second coming of Christ.

In July 2008, however, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that Rastafari may be allowed to possess greater amounts of cannabis legally, owing to its use by them as a sacrament.

Formally adopting the Rastafari faith, with its advocacy of repatriation to Africa and its use of cannabis, he joined the ranks of the Bobo Ashanti in the mid-1990s.

* Kali, a name for cannabis in the Rastafari movement

Members of the movement say it is based on the teachings of Marcus Garvey and that they use cannabis as the Rastafari sacrament.

Members of the Rastafari movement use cannabis as a part of their worshiping of their King, Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, and as an aid to meditation.

The movement was founded in Jamaica in the 1930s and while it is not known when Rastafarians first made cannabis into something sacred it is clear that by the late 1940s Rastafari was associated with cannabis smoking at the Pinnacle community of Leonard Howell.

Rastafari see cannabis as a sacramental and deeply beneficial plant that is the Tree of Life mentioned in the Bible.

" The use of cannabis, and particularly of long-stemmed water-pipes called chalices, is an integral part of what Rastafari call " reasoning sessions " where members join together to discuss life according to the Rasta perspective.

Thus Rastafari smoke cannabis together in order to discuss the truth with each other, reasoning it all out little by little through many sessions.