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Rastafarianism is a name for Rastafari: the religion and way of life that grew in Jamaica, especially from the 1930s. It is the belief, not the person. Followers — — honour Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Ras Tafari) as a messiah or as God, and they hold that Black people will one day return to Africa from life far from home. It is not a single church with one rule-book; different groups teach slightly different things. carried the ideas around the world. Though actually, many believers prefer the name Rastafari, not Rastafarianism. The - can sound like an outsider's label, as if it were just another item on a list of -. In dictionaries you will still meet Rastafarianism for the system of belief.
拉斯塔法里教(信徒多半自稱 Rastafari,較少用 -ism 這個外人標籤)
組成Rastafarian + -ism (a system of belief). Rastafari itself is from Amharic ras, “chief, head”, + täfäri, “revered”, a title of Haile Selassie.
同家族的字
- Rastafariana person who follows this faith
- Rastafarithe name many believers prefer for the faith itself
- Rastathe short informal form
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Rastafarianismname
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A religion that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s out of biblical prophecy and rising black aspirations.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。