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A Contextual Reading of Ethiopian Crosses through Form and Ritual : Kaleidoscopes of Meaning / Maria Evangelatou.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463205782
  • 9781463240226
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 246/.5580963
LOC classification:
  • CC350.E8
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY -- CHAPTER TWO. THE CROSS IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE -- CHAPTER THREE. INTERPRETING ETHIOPIAN CROSSES: THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF FORM -- CHAPTER FOUR. A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO ETHIOPIAN CROSSES: THE FABRIC OF RITUAL AND THE TREE OF CULTURE -- CONCLUSION. ETHIOPIAN CROSSES AS TIMEFUL GENERATIVE ASSEMBLIES OF MEANING AND DOING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary: An exploration of the ways in which crosses reflect and shape ideas and practices in Ethiopian culture: from religious values and rituals to magic and apocalyptic beliefs, and from individual identities to socio-political structures and power relations.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781463240226

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY -- CHAPTER TWO. THE CROSS IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE -- CHAPTER THREE. INTERPRETING ETHIOPIAN CROSSES: THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF FORM -- CHAPTER FOUR. A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO ETHIOPIAN CROSSES: THE FABRIC OF RITUAL AND THE TREE OF CULTURE -- CONCLUSION. ETHIOPIAN CROSSES AS TIMEFUL GENERATIVE ASSEMBLIES OF MEANING AND DOING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

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An exploration of the ways in which crosses reflect and shape ideas and practices in Ethiopian culture: from religious values and rituals to magic and apocalyptic beliefs, and from individual identities to socio-political structures and power relations.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)