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

Publication Info.	Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2018]
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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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Language	In English.
Subject	Crosses -- Ethiopia.
	Crosses.
	Ethiopia.
	Christian art and symbolism -- Ethiopia.
	Christian art and symbolism.
	Christianity and culture -- Ethiopia.
	Christianity and culture.
	Christianity -- Ethiopia -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Christianity.
	Rites and ceremonies.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Dictionaries.
	Dictionaries.
ISBN	1463240228
	9781463240226 (electronic book)
Standard No.	10.31826/9781463240226