To Rastafarians, dreadlocks are seen as biblical and they believe it makes them look more like Haile Selassie (the emperor of Ethiopia during the 1920s) who they considered god.
Taken from the book, "WHY SO MANY GODS?" by Tim Baker and Kate Etue.
Derek Jeter was raised a Rastafarian but in his late teens he became a practicing Druid.
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Tafari was the name of an Ethiopian prince. Ras Tafari translates as prince Tafari. He is regarded as the leader of the Rastafarian religion. Tafari later became known as Haile Selassie.
No, he had khaki background and has later became a Rastafarian.
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Stoicism was not a religion. It was a philosophical school. It originated from Greece and became popular among the nobility in the Roman empire. Famous people such as Cicero were inspired by stoicism. Emperor Marcus Aurelius was a stoic philosopher.
He became a rasta when he met his wife Rita - she converted him into Rastafarian.
Buddhism is the dominant religion of Vietnam.
Not at all - it was not a war about religion. Peoples recignised the equivalence of their gods, and so did not fight over them. It was not until the advent of the exclusivist religions - Judaism-Christianity-Islam that religious wars became popular.
Soren Kierkegaard became famous through his writing and philosophy. He was from Denmark and wrote a number of books on the philosophy of religion before his death in 1855. It is now a popular surname in Denmark.
Facebook became popular in 2004