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[Extract:] Rastafarianism is a religion that emerged from Jamaica in the 1930s. Today, it has an estimated one million followers around the globe. Rastafari, as practitioners call it, is an Abrahamic religion, sharing many features with Judeo-Christian faiths, though the Rastafari name for their deity is Jah. Rastafari is considered both a New Religious Movement and a social movement; it has political roots and aims towards social justice. A key belief of Rastafari is that Africans are Jah’s chosen people and Africa is their Promised Land, or Zion.
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The SAGE encyclopedia of the sociology of religion
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