Which African country is regarded as the spiritual home of the Rastafari religious movement?
Rastafari movement in the United States Rastafari movement in the United States The Rastafari Movement in the United States is the Rastafari Movement, founded in Jamaica, manifestation in the United States. The name "Rastafari" is taken from "Ras Tafari", the title (Ras) and first name (Tafari Makonnen) of Haile Selassie I before his coronation. In Amharic, "Ras", literally "head", is an Ethiopian title equivalent to prince or chief, while the personal given name "Täfäri" ("teferi") means one who is revered. The origin of Rastafari came from Jamaica and Ethiopia. Jah is a Biblical name of God, from a shortened form of Jahweh or "Jehovah" found in
Rastafari movement in the United States to date, little scholarly research has been done on the effects of the movement on the United States of America. But this is not to say that such influences and affections do not exist in America, which many Rastafari see as the epitome of Babylon, and the hearth of all evil in the world. This does not stop Rastafari from immigrating to America, as a considerable influx of Jamaican Rastafari made the United States their new home during the 1960s and 1970s. The Rastafari movement played a vital role in the shaping of local United States society and culture, as