Rastafarianism

English

Etymology

From Rastafarian +‎ -ism, from Amharic ራስ ተፈሪ (ras täfäri, from ራስ (ras, “chief, head”) +‎ ተፈሪ (täfäri, “revered”)), a title of Haile Selassie.

Proper noun

Rastafarianism

1. A religion that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s out of biblical prophecy and rising black aspirations.

Synonyms

• Rasta
• Rastafari

Coordinate terms

religionsedit

• agnosticism
• Asatru
• atheism
• Ayyavazhi
• Baháʼí Faith
• Bon
• Buddhism
• Cao Dai
• Cheondoism
• Christianity
• deism
• Druidry
• Druze
• Eckankar
• Heathenry
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Jainism
• Jediism
• Judaism
• Kimbanguism
• Odinism
• paganism
• Pastafarianism
• Raëlism
• Rastafarianism
• Rodnovery
• Romuva
• Samaritanism
• Sanamahism
• Shinto
• Sikhism
• Taoism
• Tengrism
• Thelema
• Unitarian Universalism
• Wicca
• Yahwism
• Yazidism
• Yoruba
• Zoroastrianism

Related terms

• Rastafarian

Translations

religion that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拉斯特法里教 (laai¹ si¹ tak⁶ faat³ lei⁵ gaau³)

  Mandarin: 拉斯塔法里教 (Lāsītǎfǎlǐjiào)

• Danish: Rastafaribevægelsen, Rastafarianisme
• Finnish: rastafari
• French: rastafarisme (fr) m
• Italian: rastafarianismo (it) m
• Portuguese: rastafarianismo m
• Russian: растафариа́нство (ru) n (rastafariánstvo)