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Conservation of the Ethiopian church forests: Threats, opportunities and implications for their management [PDF]

Science of The Total Environment, 2016
In the central and northern highlands of Ethiopia, native forest and forest biodiversity is almost confined to sacred groves associated with churches. Local communities rely on these 'church forests' for essential ecosystem services including shade and fresh water but little is known about their region-wide distribution and conservation value.
Raf, Aerts, Koen, Van Overtveld, Eva, November, Alemayehu, Wassie, Abrham, Abiyu, Sebsebe, Demissew, Desalegn D, Daye, Kidane, Giday, Mitiku, Haile, Sarah, TewoldeBerhan, Demel, Teketay, Zewge, Teklehaimanot, Pierre, Binggeli, Jozef, Deckers, Ib, Friis, Georg, Gratzer, Martin, Hermy, Moïra, Heyn, Olivier, Honnay, Maxim, Paris, Frank J, Sterck, Bart, Muys, Frans, Bongers, John R, Healey   +23 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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The spread of Catholicism in Ethiopia during the seventeenth century. History of manners approach

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2004
The Jesuit mission sought for many years to subdue the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuits believed in the Ignatian conception of the Church as the mystical body of Christ, and thus treated the Ethiopian Church like a ...
Leonardo Cohen
doaj  

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as Religious Other in Contemporary Ethiopia: Discursive Practices of Three Selected Religious Authorities

Religions
Through critical discourse analysis of widely circulated and debated video speeches by three selected religious authorities in Ethiopia—representing the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC), Islam, and Protestantism—this paper examines how religious
Sileshie Semahagne Kumlachew
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Context, Mechanism, and Outcome: Explaining Gendered Administrative Burdens on Abortion Access in Italy

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abortion access in Italy provides a case to examine how gendered administrative burdens emerge through the interplay of legal provisions, informal frontline practices, and contextual influences. Drawing on the Context–Mechanism–Outcome framework from realist evaluation, the analysis shows how legal access to abortion is constrained by ...
Debra Lanfranconi, Markus Hinterleitner
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Édition du texte guèze

Afriques, 2014
This edition and translation of the Life and Miracles of Daniel is based on a manuscript still kept in the church of Māryām Qorqor. Covered with wooden boards, it measures 34.5 x 30 x 9 cm and has 115 folios of parchment.
Gérard Colin
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Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1029-1041, July 2026.
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton, Gabriel K. Ameka, Alexandre Antonelli, Alex Asase, Russell L. Barrett, Ann Bogaerts, Domingos Cardoso, Mark Carine, Alastair Culham, Syadwina H. Dalimunthe, Nina Davies, Sofie De Smedt, Sebebe Demissew, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Quentin Groom, Elspeth M. Haston, Abdulrokhman Kartonegoro, Paul Kersey, Isabel Larridon, Jana Leong‐Škorničková, Lucia G. Lohmann, Jehova Lourenco Jr., Hannah McPherson, Muthama Muasya, Nicky Nicolson, Marcelo Pace, Jack F. Plummer, Hélène Ralimanana, Himmah Rustiami, Hervé Sauquet, Emily B. Sessa, Eric Smets, Alex Sumadijaya, Jordan Teisher, Daniel C. Thomas, Eka F. Tihurua, Janine E. Victor, Sarah T. Wagner, Quiang Wang, Andrew Young   +39 more
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Joasaph II in an Unpublished List of the Metropolitans of the Ethiopian Church

, 2016
This article introduces new information regarding the Metropolitan Joasaph II (III) (the years of his tenure were 1770–1803). Josaph II (III), the Coptic clergyman, was the head of the Ethiopian Church for 33 years. His service coincided with the initial
E. Gusarova
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