Rastafarian
Rastafari is an Afrocentric religious and social movement that emerged in 1930s Jamaica in the wake of Marcus Garvey's Pan-African teachings. Adherents venerate Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I — crowned in 1930 under the throne name "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah" — as the returned messiah foretold in biblical prophecy and as the living embodiment of God, whom they call Jah. Rastafari teaches that Black Africans are a diasporic people in exile from their true homeland, and that repatriation to Africa — especially Ethiopia — is both spiritual and literal. Scripture is the Bible, read through an Afrocentric lens alongside the Holy Piby and the Kebra Nagast. Distinctive practices include the wearing of dreadlocks, an Ital (natural, often vegetarian) diet, reasoning sessions, and the ritual use of cannabis as a sacred herb. There are roughly one million Rastafarians worldwide, concentrated in the Caribbean, the Americas, Africa, and the United Kingdom.