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Century of Magico-Religious Healing

ISBN-13: 9781569024188

Author(s): Assefa Negwo

Subjects: HBH, HBJH, NHH

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 28-04-2016

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£34.95

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About the book

During the 20th century, church-based healers had to contend with a rapidly changing social and political environment shaped by successive state-led efforts to transform Ethiopian society. These transformations, including the introduction of western education and medicine, began with the westernising initiatives of Menelik II (1889-1913), and continued through successive post-Menelik governments. Here, Assefa Negwo investigates how churchbased medico-magical healers struggled to maintain their medical traditions in the face of these transformations.

Century of Magico-Religious Healing

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