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 | | About 75 percent of Jamaica's population was Protestant, and 8 percent was Roman Catholic; various Muslim, Jewish, and spiritualist groups were also present. |
 | | originated in Jamaica in 1930, as a religious response to the coronation of Crown Prince Ras Tafari, as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia... |
 | | Like some other movements in less-developed societies, the Ras Tafarians are not a distinct sect with a coherent organization, but a collection of groups of greater or lesser degrees of permanence, centred around a number of spasmodically emerging leaders, who proclaim a broad similar set of beliefs. |
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