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Sacred and the profane : environmental anthropology of ethiopian orthodox christianity /
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 itse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hamburg, Germany :
Anchor Academic Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783954895816 3954895811 |