Haile Selassie
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In a historical coronation dating back four milleniums, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, was coronated on November, 2, 1930. Selassie claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, David’s father, making him a descendant of Christ himself. Selassie gained international renown and respect from being a fierce and determined defender of the doctrine of independence, Africanism, and the basic tenets of Rastafarianism. He often championed the disenfranchised and globally disadvantaged before the United Nations. Selassie fought two wars against then-fascist Italy in an effort to keep Ethiopia from becoming a colony. While Marcus Mosiah Garvey would come to represent the new prophet of Rastafarianism after Selassie’s death in 1975, Selassie is seen as the Messiah by the Rastafari and remains the spiritual leader who laid the groundwork for the religion and culture.When we look at Haile Selassie and the Rastafarian religion and culture, we see immediately two pillars of Rastafari ideology that are directly connected to Selassie as the messiah of Rastafari. We also immediately see that these two tenets of Rastafari tare in great conflict with and give challenge to the central tenets of Western theology, i.e., Christianity and Judaism: No tenet of the sixty-seven-year-old Ras Tafari movement is more enduring or more important than belief in the prestigi
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eology [the crowning of Selassie] for social upliftment was powerful enough to generate a sudden wave of opposition and a vigorous reaction from the establishment. But this opposition and reaction also brought valuable publicity to the movement, which in turn yielded a following” (Barrett 91).
Therefore, two main tenets of Rastafarianism that were originated with Selassie’s birth and reign are main tenets of the religion and culture to this day. Tracing Selassie’s lineage to a tryst between Israel’s King Solomon and the Egyptian Queen, Sheba, is all important to the ideology as well as the location of Selassie’s birth. Selassie’s deeds as leader of his people also helped spread and unite the Rastafarian religion and culture. During the late 1930s, Selassie fought two fierce wars against then-fascist Italy in order to keep his people from being conquered, before fleeing into exile. His staunch resistance in doing so inspired a wave of militant youth who began proclaiming Selassie was the Black man’s God while talking of a return to Africa in mass numbers.
While the religious aspects of Rastafarianism are based loosely on the tenets of Christianity, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was seen as the prophet of the religion. Garvey’s pa
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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