Brill, 2017. — 261 p. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has gone through a decade of significant economic change and political contestation since 2004. The ruling EPRDF party has redefined the country as a ‘developmental state’ and has tried to increase its presence on the African and world stage. Preceded by a new Introduction casting a broader perspective on some...
Brill, 2014. — xiv, 370 p. — (African Social Studies Series 32). This work examines the philosophical origins of Oromo egalitarian and democratic thoughts and practice, the Gadaa-Qaalluu system, kinship organization, the introduction and spread of Islam and the consequent socio-cultural change. It sheds light on the advent of the Ethiopian empire under Menelik II, its conquests...
Brill, 2015. — xxxvi + 419 p. — (Jesuit Studies 2). In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times. The book examines the period of early Portuguese...
Brill, 2013. — xxii, 366 p. — (African Social Studies Series 30). In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires Gufu Oba presents accounts of why the legacies of banditry and ethnic conflicts have proved so difficult to resolve along the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier. Using interpretative and comparative methods to dialogue the relationships between different political...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. — XI, 245 p. — (Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity; 24). Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity constitutes an exceptional religious tradition flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa already since late antiquity. The volume places Ethiopian Orthodoxy into a global context and explores the various ways in which it has been interconnected with the wider...
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. — 270 S. Das Werk erschließt erstmals die vielfältigen Wechselwirkungen von äthiopisch-orthodoxem Christentum und europäischem Protestantismus. Diese zwei Größen - die Äthiopische Kirche einerseits und das protestantische Christentum in seinen vielfältigen Ausprägungen andererseits - werden in der Kirchengeschichte gemeinhin gesondert...
Brill, 2012. — xiv, 299 p. — (African Social Studies Series 27). This book offers a comparative ethnography of the contested powers that shape democratization in Ethiopia. Although multi-party elections have become the norm in Africa, relatively little is known about the significance of non-state actors such as traditional authorities in electioneering. Focusing on Ethiopia’s...
СПб.: Типография Императорской академии наук, 1906. — 136 с. + илл. В 1838 году, описывая впервые на страницах тогдашнего академическаго «Bulletin Scientifique» семь эфиопскихъ рукописей И. Публичной Библиотеки, наш первый эфиопист Акад. Дорн, высказал следующее: «So besitzen denn zwei Bibliotheken St. Petersburgs, die öffentliche Kaiserliche und die des Institutes fur...