Caught in the Storm of Progress: Timoteos Saprichian, Ethiopia, and the Modernity of Christianity.

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  • Author(s): de Lorenzi, James
  • Source:
    Journal of World History. Mar2008, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p89-114. 26p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      EUROPEAN civilization; PROGRESS; RACE; CHRISTIANS; RELIGION; SAPRICHIAN, Timotheos; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; CHRISTIANITY
    • Subject Terms:
      ETHIOPIAReport Available
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses the significance of European concepts of progress and race in transforming the relations among non-European Christians in the nineteenth century. It recounts the travel of Timotheos Saprichian, an Armenian visitor to Ethiopia from the Ottoman Empire. The travel narrative indicates the separation of some Orthodox Christians from their African coreligionists through the employment of new ideas about the hierarchy of human communities. Walter Benjamin's model of progress has been used in understanding changes in religious identity during the imperial age.