{"product_id":"9783032455079","title":"Orthodox Ethiopia","description":"\u003ch1\u003eOrthodox Ethiopia\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSamson Abebe Bezabeh\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology of Religion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking volume explores how religious communities make sense of political loss, social marginalization, and the collapse of an established political order, as well as what their experiences tell us about the nature of political transition itself. The book highlights the experiences of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian community, and the radically altered political landscape that Orthodox Christians have faced since the 1974 revolution that ended imperial rule. Drawing on the religious idea of a special covenant between God and the Orthodox community, the book examines how believers have interpreted their changing place in Ethiopian society .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy tracing the historical transformation of these religious ideas, the book demonstrates that the contemporary conflicts affecting Ethiopia, particularly in the Amhara region, cannot be understood solely through the lenses of ethnicity, state power, or electoral politics. They are also shaped by deeply rooted religious imaginations that inform how communities understand history, legitimacy, belonging, and political authority. The book also offers a broader intervention in the study of political transition in Africa. Rather than treating transition as a process defined primarily by democratization, elections, and market reform, it asks how political change is understood by those who live through it. Through an analysis of the Orthodox concept of \u003cem\u003eQale\u003c\/em\u003e, the book reveals how religious concepts can provide alternative frameworks for interpreting political transformation. Bringing together the study of religion, politics, and social change, this book challenges conventional understandings of political transition in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamson Abebe Bezabeh,\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on religion, state-society interaction and political history in the Horn of Africa. He is the author of\u003cem\u003eDjibouti: A Political History\u003c\/em\u003e“(Lynne Rienner, 2023) and\u003cem\u003eSubjects of Empires \/Citizens of States : Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia\u003c\/em\u003e” (American University in Cairo Press, 2016). His article “Citizenship and the Logic of Sovereignty in Djibouti,” which appeared in\u003cem\u003eAfrican Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, the leading Africanist journal published by Oxford University Press , won the journal’s African Author Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 April 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032455079\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63414378528908,"sku":"9783032455079","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032455079","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}