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Creating modern Ethiopian historiography (Ethiopian sources from the early 20th Century)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007
Researchers interested in the history of Africa perceive Ethiopia as such a culturally different area, they exclude it from their fields of interest. Moreover, both the beginning and the development of Ethiopian studies was derived from and used to be ...
Hanna Rubinkowska
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Covenant Refractions in Everyday Devotion

African Christian Theology
A book review essay of The Covenant’s Veil:   Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition of Elaboration, by Alexandra Sellassie Antohin, Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought (New York:   Fordham University Press, 2025).
Nebeyou A. TEREFE
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African and European Collaboration: Reading African and Latin European Crusader Sources Together

African Christian Theology
A book review essay of Nubia, Ethiopia, and the Crusading World, 1095–1402, by Adam Simmons, Advances in Crusades Research (New York:  Routledge, 2023).
Nathan Alexander SCOTT
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Religious statecraft: Constantinianism in the figure of Nagashi Kaleb

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The Himyarite invasion of 525 CE by Kaleb of Aksum was a definitive war in the narrative of global religion and politics. The accounts surrounding the war corroborate the notion of an impressed Constantinian modus of establishing religious statecraft ...
Rugare Rukuni
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Music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as heritage of Saint Yarēd

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2002
According to tradition, it was Saint Yarēd who introduced the three styles (ge'ez, ‘izil and 'ara ray) into Ethiopian church chant, invented musical notation and wrote almost all the repertoire, performed till these days by the debtera and the church ...
Jolanta Kossakowska
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Oromo Court Intellectual, Catholic Martyr: Ṭino’s Negotiation of Identity, Faith and Power, 1600s–1638

Afriques
Primary accounts from the late 17th century indicate that the Solomonid court of Ethiopia was renowned for attracting talented elites from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Awegichew Amare
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Paul's Conversion and Luke's Portrayal of Character in Acts 8-10

Tyndale Bulletin, 2003
Luke’s portrait of Saul shows him to lack a right relationship with God. This is accomplished in part by contrasting the pre-conversion Saul with Stephen, the Ethiopian eunuch, and Cornelius.
Philip H. Kern
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The Stranger at the Feast [PDF]

, 2018
The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world’s oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, Tom Boylston tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious change by following local transformations in ...
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Religious Beliefs among the Oromo: Waaqeffannaa, Christianity and Islam in the Context of Ethnic Identity, Citizenship and Integration

Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2012
The Oromo are the largest single ethnic group speaking Cushitic language and inhabiting the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. The annals of the Oromo reveal that the Oromo religion was neither Christianity nor Islam but was an indigenous religion known as ...
Tesema Ta’a
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[Editorial] Nicaea at 1700: Roots and Branches in African Christianity

African Christian Theology
This issue of African Christian Theology is a themed issue celebrating the seventeenth centennial of the Nicene Creed.  For the majority of Christians around the world, the Nicene Creed of 325 and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 remain ...
Joshua Robert BARRON
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