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Oromo’s religious conversion in Ethiopia: Historical perspective

Antropoloji, 2021
The Oromo are one of the indigenous peoples of Ethiopia who lived in the country for time immemorial. Nowadays, most of the Oromo are Christians (Orthodox, Protestant) and Muslim.
Negesso Jima Duibe
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Non-Chalcedonian (Ancient Eastern) communities and the foreign policy of the Russian state and the Church. Late 19th and early 20th centuries [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2022
The article analyzes the contacts of the Russian state and Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with the non-Chalcedonian communities - the Assyrian-Nestorians of Northern Persia and Eastern Turkey, the Syro-Jacobites of Mesopotamia,
Alexander Polunov
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and its role in the State before 1974

Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2021
The aim of the study is to consider the role and place of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church in preserving the ancient traditions and culture of the peoples of Ethiopia.
Nigusie Wolde Michae Kassaye, Yu. N. Buzykina   +1 more
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Jewish–Christian Interaction in Ethiopia as Reflected in Sacred Geography: Expressing Affinity with Jerusalem and the Holy Land and Comemorating the Betä Ǝsraʾel–Solomonic Wars

Religions, 2022
Affinity with the Holy Land, and especially with Jerusalem, is a common theme in the sacred geography of Abrahamic religions, expressed in prayer houses and holy sites.
Bar Kribus
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Hagiography as Source: Gender and Conversion Narratives in The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church

Religions, 2020
Drawing on the work of Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, this essay proposes utilizing hagiographies from the The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, a fifteenth-century Ethiopian collection of saints’ lives, to explore various aspects of ...
Anna Redhair Wells
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Profiles of Ethiopian centenarians: A qualitative inquiry

Anthropology & Aging, 2021
As global aging advances, the number of centenarians worldwide is greatly increasing.   Most of what is known about centenarians comes the Global North.
Samson Chane, Margaret E. Adamek
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African Ethiopia and Byzantine imperial orthodoxy: Politically influenced self-definition of Christianity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The ancient Ethiopian Christian empire was an emergent and notable power in Eastern Africa and influenced its surrounding regions. It was itself influenced both religiously and politically. The ancient Christian narrative of North Africa has been deduced
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)

Afriques, 2014
This article analyses the accoustic images of Ethiopia given by the Franciscan father Remedius Prutky in his travelogue Itinerarium, written in the mid-17th c., a text recently edited and translated. A sensory-oriented reading of this text is possible by
Anne Damon-Guillot
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Ethiopian Dynastic Marriage and the Bétä Esra'él

Aethiopica, 2013
Significant contacts between the Ethiopian State and the Bétä Esraʾél began in the late sixteenth century with the move of the imperial capital to the Lake Ṭana area, which was relatively near to Fälaša settlements in or around the Sämén mountains.
Richard Pankhurst
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New Approaches to ‘Converts’ and ‘Conversion’ in Africa: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Religions, 2020
It is our goal in this special issue on “Religious Conversion in Africa” to examine the limitations of a long-standing bias toward Christianity with respect to the study of “conversion.” Furthermore, we want to use this issue to prime other scholarly ...
Jason Bruner, David Dmitri Hurlbut
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