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    The Mirroring Lives of a Jamaican and a Rastafarian Introduction This paper is a series of two interviews that I had over the course of the semester. I used both of the interviews as a series of research. I then used this research and supported it with published work. The first interview occurred when I was in Jamaica. I randomly crossed paths with Peter. He informed my friends and I that he was a Rastafarian. We spoke with him for about two hours on the beach. He informed us about his religion

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    most influential of these revolutionary efforts contributed to the formation of Jamaica’s very own religious movement, Rastafarianism. With oppression serving as one of the driving forces for the Rastafari Movement, it is understandable why its followers are so adamant about professing their ideologies, beliefs and practices. The central language used to express the grievances of Rastafarians is known globally as the music genre, Reggae. It is not merely coincidental that the country pregnant with

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    Compare Rastafarianism

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    Fast.” Rastas believe in coming together to pray and discuss matters of their communities during a time “Reasoning Session.” This is almost similar to Christians coming together to worship on Sundays. Puritanism Puritanism was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England during the latter part of the 16th century (PBS.org). The Puritans migrated to the Americas in the early 1630s to set about reforming the Church. The Puritans believed that the Church of England was corrupt

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    Music of the Rastafari, the Rasta Community, the Dreads Nyabinghi music played at Rastafarian grounations, which includes drumming of at least three hand drums, chanting, dancing, spiritual use of the holy herb, and praise to Jah Rastafari, are considered the most important and inspirational meeting of Rastafari. The term "nyabinghi" is said to have come from a religious, spiritual, and political movement in East Africa beginning in the 1850’s until the 1950 led by a series of spiritually influential

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    huge part of the human rights movement in Jamaica. The lyrics are politically motivated and wanting change. The song talks about the necessary actions that need to be taken to avoid the current oppression in Jamaica. One of the more important topics of the song was the fight for everyone to have their unalienable rights and to say that they are not just reserved for the upper class. Another point of view was the song defending the commonly misunderstood Rastafarian religion. The three people that

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    Millions and millions of people in the world are familiar with the name Bob Marley. People all over the world love his songs, such as “Buffalo Soldier” and “Three Little Birds”. “Is This Love” is the ultimate song to sit back and relax to. Many people, however, don’t recognize the political impact that Bob Marley had to Jamaica. Jamaica, in the 1970’s, was a political and economic mess. Bob Marley’s music, and other Reggae musicians, have conveyed messages of independence all over the world, and

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    Rastafarianism is the child of two very distinct and unrelated entities. One parent is Garveyism, an ideology which at its essence is a Black supremacist socio-political movement with the end goal of repatriating African descendants in the diaspora back to Africa and and Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is one of the five  monophysite churches, characterised by their rejection of the Council of Chalcedon 451 AD(Ethiopian) This council was convened in an effort to

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    There are several theories about how the word reggae originated. The first theory claims that the word reggae was coined on a 1968 Pyramid dance single, "Do the Reggay (sic)," by Toots and the Maytals. Some believe that the word is originated from Regga, the name of a Bantu-speaking tribe on Lake Tanganyika. Others say that it is a corruption of the word streggae, which is Kingston street slang for prostitute (The Origins of Ska …,n.d.). On the other hand, Bob Marley claimed that

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    Informative Outline Topic: The Rastafari Movement General Purpose: To inform. Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the general history of The Rastafari Movement and to eliminate possibly misconceptions about the movement. Thesis: The Rastafari movement is a positive movement that promotes peace amongst all, self-respect, self -awareness, and respect for others. I. Introduction a. Attention Getter: Is anyone here familiar with the term Rastafarian? Could you provide some terms that

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