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Religious Strangers in the Kingdom of Ethiopia - Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270–1527 by Taddesse Tamrat Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp. xv+ 327. £5.50. $18.00. - Priests and Politicians: Protestants and Catholic Missions in Orthodox Ethiopia, 1830–68 by Donale Crummey Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp. xii+ 176. £4.00. $13.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

William A. Shack
William A. Shack
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The London School of Economics and Political Science, and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1975 , pp. 361 - 366
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Page 361 note 1 Simmel, Georg, Soziologie (Munich and Leipzig, 1908), pp. 685–91.Google Scholar See also The Sociology of Georg Simmel, translated by Kurt H. Wolff (Glencoe, Ill., 1950), pp. 402–8.Google Scholar

Page 361 note 2 Cf. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, translated and edited by W. H. Schoff (London, 1912).Google Scholar

Page 361 note 3 See, for example, Rossini, Conti, Storia d'Etiopia (Milan, 1928);Google ScholarGuidi, Ignazio, Il‘GadlaAragawi’, Memorie della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Series 5, Vol. II, pt. 1 (1896), pp. 54–96;Google Scholar and Budge, E. A. Walls, The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church (Cambridge, 1928), Vols. I–IV.Google Scholar

Page 362 note 1 For the period of Ethiopian history that almost spans the years not covered by Tamrat and Crummey, see Abir, M., The Era of the Princes. The Challenge of Islam and the Reunification of the Christian Empire, 1769–1855 (New York, 1968).Google Scholar

Page 362 note 2 For an interesting analysis of the Kibra Nägäst as the source of Ethiopian national identity, see Levine, D. N., Greater (Chicago, 1974).Google ScholarEthiopia: the volution of a multiethnic society.

Page 363 note 1 The primary Arabic source on the Gragn invasion of Christian Ethiopia was compiled by his chronicler. See Faqih, Arab, Fuftth al-Habasha, translated by Basset, R. (Paris, 1897–1901).Google Scholar

Page 363 note 2 The most active Protestant missions were the Church Missionary Society, the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the [Falasha] Jews, the Basel Mission, and the Pilgrim Mission. The Capuchins and Lazarists were active in Catholic mission work.

Page 365 note 1 For a recent view of the neglect by anthropologists to study the rôle of missionaries as agents of change in Africa, see Beidelman, T. O., ‘Social Theory and the Study of Christian Missions in Africa, in Africa (London), XLIV, 3, 07 1974, pp. 235–49.Google Scholar

Page 365 note 2 Cf. Mair, Lucy, ‘Independent Religious Movements in Three Continents, in Comparative Studies in Society arid History (Cambridge), 1, 2, 1959, pp. 113–36.Google Scholar

Page 365 note 3 See, for example, Cohn, N., The Pursuit of the Millenium (London, 1957);Google Scholar and Williams, G. H.The Radical Reformation (London, 1962).Google Scholar