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"Muscular Christianity": the role of the Ethiopian YMCA sports in shaping "modern" masculinities (1950s-1970s)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2013
The work of the Ethiopian Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), which commenced in Addis Ababa in the early 1950s and spread to eighteen Ethiopian cities until the early 1970s, revolved around the development of a ‘balanced manhood’ through social ...
Katrin Bromber
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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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Introduction: Placing Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity into a Global Context [PDF]

, 2022
Martin Tamcke
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Negus Ezana: Revisiting the Christianisation of Aksum

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021
The Christianisation of Ethiopia is decoded within the reign of Ezana. The person of Ezana as a real-time figure and within the context of then Aksumite religious-cultural and political dynamics creates the background of the narrative for Ethiopian ...
Rugare Rukuni
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Social and political contexts of religious conversion in Sidaama, Ethiopia, 1891-1974 [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023
This article discusses religious conversion in Sidaama, Ethiopia, 1891-1974. The Sidaama area is in Southern Ethiopia, southeast of Lake Hawassa and northeast of Lake Abaya in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia.
Dr. Erik Egeland
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Parthian-India and Aksum: A geographical case for pre-Ezana early Christianity in Ethiopia

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The narrative of Indian Christianity that is compositely based on Thomine tradition derives significantly from the reality of Parthian-India geo-economics and geopolitics.
Rugare Rukuni
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Oral and written transmission in Ethiopian Christian chant [PDF]

Early Music History, 1993
Of all the musical traditions in the world among which fruitful comparisons with medieval European chant might be made, the chant tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church promises to be especially informative. In Ethiopia one can actually witness many of the same processes of oral and written transmission as were or may have been active in medieval ...
Shelemay, Kay, Jeffery, Peter, Monson, Ingrid   +2 more
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Early Ethiopian Christianity: Retrospective enquiry from the perspective of Indian Thomine tradition

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Ethiopian Christianity’s narrative is aggregately established with an explicit aversion to the account of the Ethiopian Eunuch in the Lukan Acts (Ac 8). The preceding practise neglects a cardinal record in Christian history, as arguably the Book of Acts ...
Rugare Rukuni
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Transnationalism and Hybridity in Religious Practices during the Migration Process: The Zera Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel

Religions, 2022
This article examines the complexity of religious practices and beliefs among a group of Zera Beta Israel (Falash Mura) members before, during, and a decade after their immigration process to Israel.
Ravit Talmi-Cohn
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A case for organic indigenous Christianity: African Ethiopia as derivate from Jewish Christianity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
From its inception to the 4th century CE, Christianity experienced a formative process composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events (i.e. Jewish-Christian Schism, Hellenism and imperial intervention).
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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