Rastafari — Chapter 2: Origins, Streams, and Meaning

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This is Chapter 2 in an ongoing series exploring Rastafari — its origins, development, and internal streams — approached carefully, respectfully, and without caricature.

This chapter focuses on:
• how Rastafari emerged historically
• the main streams within the movement
• how identity, resistance, and belief took shape
• why these distinctions matter for understanding Rastafari properly

This series is not polemic, and it is not reaction content.
It is an attempt to understand before judging, and to listen before speaking.

This chapter forms part of the deeper work on this channel, alongside reflections on belief, truth, and responsibility under pressure.