Ethiopia and the Missions

ab 24,90 

Verena Böll, Steven Kaplan, Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, Evgenia Sokolinskaia (Eds.)

Historical and Anthropological Insights

ISBN 978-3-8258-7792-2
Band-Nr. 25
Jahr 2005
Seiten 272
Bindung broschiert
Reihe Afrikanische Studien/African Studies

Description

Since the sixteenth century, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity and the
indigenous religions of Ethiopia have been confronted with, and influenced
by, numerous Catholic and Protestant missions. This book offers
historical, anthropological and personal analyses of these encounters. The
discussion ranges from the Jesuit debate on circumcision to Oromo Bible
translation, from Pentecostalism in Addis Ababa to conversion processes
among the Nuer. Juxtaposing past and present, urban and rural, the book
breaks new ground in both religious and African studies.