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, 2012 According to tradition and to the early church historian Eusebius, Christianity was preached in Ethiopia by the apostle Matthew before it reached Europe; Mark the evangelist is said to have established the church in Alexandria in 43 C.E. What is clear is
Hawley, John C.
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Pan-Africanism: a contorted delirium or a pseudonationalist paradigm? Revivalist critique [PDF]
, 2013 This essaic-article goes against established conventions that there is anything ethno-cultural (and hence national) about the so-called African tribes.
Albert C. +19 more
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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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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
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Covenant Refractions in Everyday Devotion
African Christian TheologyA 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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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 3, no. 1 [PDF]
, 2018 A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. “Creole Saga”: The Gambia’s Liberated African Community in the 19th
Allen, Gabriel Leonard +4 more
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African and European Collaboration: Reading African and Latin European Crusader Sources Together
African Christian TheologyA 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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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, millions of children are adopted or placed in alternative care settings (i.e., residential, foster, or kinship care). The current study explores the factors leading to separation from parents and adoption or placement in alternative care by investigating orphanhood status, perceived antecedents to placement, types of alternative care
Nicole Gilbertson Wilke +2 more
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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