The Life of Walatta-Petros (eBook)

A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition

Galawdewos (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18889-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century, and one of the earliest stories of African resistance to European influence. Written by her disciples after her death, The Life of Walatta-Petros praises her as a friend of women, a devoted reader, a skilled preacher, and a radical leader, providing a rare picture of the experiences and thoughts of Africans-especially women-before the modern era. In addition to an authoritative and highly readable translation, this edition, which omits the notes and scholarly apparatus of the hardcover, features a new introduction aimed at students and general readers.

Autor

Wendy Laura Belcher is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department for African American Studies at Princeton University. Michael Kleiner is a historian of Ethiopia and a translator. He has taught at the universities of Göttingen, Marburg, and Hamburg, as well as at Addis Ababa University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2018
• Übersetzer: Wendy Laura Belcher, Michael Kleiner
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Achan (biblical figure) • Afonso Mendes • Angel of God • Apostasy • Ark of the Covenant • Asceticism • Baptism • Behold • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Censer • Christian • Christianity • Christian monasticism • Clergy • coffin • Consummation • Desert fathers • edict • Elijah • Elisha • Esau • Eternal life (Christianity) • Ethiopian literature • Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church • False Prophet • Faras • Fasting • fornication • Four corners of the world • fruit of the Holy Spirit • Gleaning • glorification • Glossary • God • God Knows (novel) • Great Tribulation • Hagiography • Haymanot • humility • Illustration • Intercession • itinerant preacher • Kohen • Lake Tana • Laziness • Leather • Love of Christ • Luke the Evangelist • Macarius • Manuscript • martyr • meal • Memorial service (Orthodox) • Missionary • Monastery • Monasticism • month • Mourning • Myrrh • nun • olive oil • Oral History • Paperback • parable • Parchment • Persecution • Philology • Poetry • potion • Prayer book • prostration • Psalms • recitation • Religion • Religious Community • Renunciation • Rest in Peace • Righteousness • Sackcloth • Saint Peter • Salutation • sanctification • Slavery • Society of Jesus • Soul and Body • State Religion • Supplication • Tabot • Take Shelter • Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology) • The Various • Third Heaven • Trod • Vegetable • vestment • Vestry • vigil • Walatta Petros • Will of God
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18889-0 / 0691188890
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18889-8 / 9780691188898