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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Galawdewos , Wendy Laura Belcher , Michael KleinerPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.503kg ISBN: 9780691164212ISBN 10: 0691164215 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 13 October 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsBy 2050, Africans will constitute around a third of the world's Christian population, roughly a billion people, and over a hundred million of those will live in Ethiopia. As we confront that new reality, the need to rediscover those African cultural and spiritual roots becomes imperative. The story of Walatta Petros is a wonderful contribution to this task. --Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women By 2050, Africans will constitute around a third of the world's Christian population, roughly a billion people, and over a hundred million of those will live in Ethiopia. As we confront that new reality, the need to rediscover those African cultural and spiritual roots becomes imperative. The story of Walatta Petros is a wonderful contribution to this task. --Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture This richly informative book is unexpected in many ways... In following the dramatic main narrative, we learn about the customs and faith of the great Ethiopian church, all of which is profoundly important for understanding that tradition as it exists today. --Philip Jenkins, Christian Century Author InformationWendy Laura Belcher is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson and Honey from the Lion: An African Journey. Michael Kleiner is a historian of Ethiopia and a translator. He has taught at the universities of Gttingen, Marburg, and Hamburg, as well as at Addis Ababa University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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