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1. Rastafari typically rejects feminism, although since the 1970s there have been increasing numbers of Rasta women calling for greater gender equity within the Rastafari movement.

2. In keeping with their views on death, Rastas eschew celebrating physical death and often avoid funerals, also repudiating the practice of ancestor veneration that is common among African traditional religions.

3. A common view in the Rasta community was that the world's white people would wipe themselves out through nuclear war, with black Africans then ruling the world, something that they argue is prophesied in Daniel 2: 31–32.

4. He suggested that this attitude stemmed from the large numbers of young people that were then members of the movement, and who had thus seen only few Rastas die.

5. Rasta men are permitted to have multiple female sex partners, while women are expected to reserve their sexual activity for their one male partner.

6. By the 1950s, Rastafari's counter-cultural stance had brought the movement into conflict with wider Jamaican society, including violent clashes with law enforcement.

7. Some Rasta women have challenged gender norms by wearing their hair uncovered in public and donning trousers.

8. The movement developed after several Christian clergymen, most notably Leonard Howell, proclaimed that the crowning of Haile Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930 fulfilled a Biblical prophecy.

9. Clarke encountered Rasta women in Britain who expressed feminist sentiment and criticised sexism within the religion.

10. Rastafari has been characterised as a millenarianist movement, for it espouses the idea that the present age will come to an apocalyptic end.

11. One Rasta view is that those who are righteous are believed to go through a process of reincarnation, with an individual's identity remaining throughout each of their incarnations.