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Review: Church forests—the green spots of Ethiopian highlands

Asian Journal of Forestry, 2019
. Mekonen AB, Gebreegziabher BG, Wassie WA, Tsegay BA. 2019. Review: Church forests—the green spots of Ethiopian highlands. Asian J For 3: 45-53. In the central and northern highlands of Ethiopia, the diversity and biomass of native vegetation are almost
Amare Bitewmekonen, Berhane Gebreslassie, W. A. Wassie, Berhanu Abraha Tsegay   +3 more
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Pastophoria and Altars: Interaction in Ethiopian Liturgy and Church Architecture

Aethiopica, 2012
FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHS BELONGING TO THE ARTICLE SEE SUPPLEMENTARY FILES > There are three parts to the interior space of ancient Ethiopian churches: a sanctuary (Mäqdäs) which is expanded into the “Holy Place” (Qǝddǝst) and the place of the assembly ...
Emmanuel Fritsch, Michael Gervers
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 259-269, June 2026.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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The One Lonely Little Guy Versus Thousand Lobbyists: George H. W. Bush and the American Jews

Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the strained relationship between President George H. W. Bush and the American Jewish community during the early 1990s, focusing on the controversy surrounding Israel's request for US loan guarantees and Bush's September 1991 “lonely little guy” remark.
David Tal
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Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, in the "Chronicle" of John of Nikiu and Ethiopian historical compilations [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
This study is devoted to the personality of Dioscorus, the 25th Patriarch of Alexandria, who occupied the See of St. Mark in 444-451. He became famous for his speech at the Council of Chalcedon in support of the doctrine of Monophysitism.
Ekaterina Gusarova
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Political reform and religious violence in some Ethiopian regions since 2018: Evidence from Sidama, Somali, and Oromo

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
In the post-1991 period, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front clearly endorsed the separation of state and religion. More importantly, the government is obliged to deliver equal protection for the peaceful worshiping and well-being of ...
Alene Agegnehu Waga, Kelemu Zelalem Berhanu   +1 more
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.
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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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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A Re-Examination of the Sources of Inspiration of Ethiopian Concentric Prayer Houses: Tracing an Architectural Concept from the Roman and Byzantine East to Islamic and Crusader Jerusalem to Solomonic Ethiopia

Religions
During the first millennium of Christian presence in Ethiopia (from the fourth century), church architecture was first in accordance with, and later partially based on, the basilica plan.
Bar Kribus
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