Sacred and the profane : environmental anthropology of ethiopian orthodox christianity / Gebrehiwot Gebreslassie Zesu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gebrehiwot Gebreslassie Zesu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Religion--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Orthodox Tewahedo Christian doctrine in Ethiopian practice has different possibilities: (a) within church compounds the protection of nature (respect of creation), (b) outside the submission of nature, as the Bible demands - both are Christian behaviors! Church is not pro-nature. The Church itself has set up a partition into sacred and profane, with different rule for both spheres; both systems of rules exist parallel. The followers respect the plants and animals in the church compound as end by themselves than a means to their economic objectives; they respect them not for their economic

Contents:

The Sacred and the Profane; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Trends in Biodiversity Conservation; 1.2. Research Questions; 1.3. Objectives of the Research; 1.4. Significance of the Study; 2. CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; 2.1. Conceptual Framework; 2.2. Theorizing Environmental Ethics and Biodiversity Conservation; 3. FORMER RESEARCHES ON BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; 3.1. Biodiversity and Culture; 3.2. Biodiversity and sacred areas in the World and Ethiopia; 4. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY; 4.1. Description of the Study area

4.2. The Study Site: Churches Selected for the Study4.3. Research Methodology and Methods of Data Collection; 5. BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH; 5.1. The churches and their Plant composition; 5.2. The churches and their Animal composition; 5.3. Community's View Towards Plants and Animals in the Church; 5.4. Significance of Church Plants; 5.5. The Sacred and Profane Dichotomy in the Churches; 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS; References; APPENDIX I: LIST OF QUESTIONS: INTERVIEW DISCUSSIONS; APPENDIX II: PHOTOS OF CHURCH PLANTS AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS

APPENDIX III: LIST OF LOCAL AND ENGLISH NAMES OF ANIMALS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DESCRIPTIONList of Figures; List of photos

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-581-1

OCLC:

871779615