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Author(s): | Mucha, Janusz L. Ramos, Manuel João |
Date: | 24-Sep-2012 |
Title: | The Invention of a Mission: the brief establishment of a Portuguese Catholic minority in renaissance Ethiopia |
Event title: | Vth CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS |
Keywords: | Ethiopia Minorities Portuguese |
Abstract: | Like many concepts in the social sciences, the notion of cultural minority entails some degree of falatious labeling. In the Ethiopian context - and in the specific case here presented - that is particularly true. In a way, many Ethiopian cultural minorities, being demographically not that minor, have had historically strong pretensions to become cultural majorities(1). Ethiopians like to think of themselves as a minority within the African context, and thus as part of a Christian, historical, and literate, cultural dominant group; the monophisite Ethiopians thought and think of themselves as a minority within Christianity; the Jesuit (referred to in this article) were to some extent a minority in Portuguese ecclesiastical and political life during the counter-reformation years (dominated by Dominican views); the Portuguese were a minority within the catholic community in Ethiopia... |
Peerreviewed: | Não |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CEI-CRI - Comunicações a conferências internacionais |
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