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Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia

Focusing on the role of religion and ethnicity in times of conflict, Terje steb investigates the Muslim-dominated insurgency against the Ethiopian state in the 1960s, shedding new light on this understudied case to contribute to a deeper understanding of religion, interreligious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism in the Horn of Africa. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia develops new theoretical perspectives on the interrelations between ethnic and religious identities, by applying the term peoplehood as an analytical tool; one that allows for more flexible perspectives. Exploring the interplay of imagination and lived, affective reality, and inspired by the materiality turn in cultural and religious studies, steb argues for an integrated approach that recognizes and explores embodiment and emplacement as intrinsic to formations of ethnic and religious identities.

Terje steb is Associate Professor in the Center for African Studies and the Department of Religion at the University of Florida where his research focuses on Islam in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa and Salafism in Africa. He is the author of Localising Salafism (2012) and the coeditor of Muslim Ethiopia (2013).

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Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia

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Terje Steb

University of Florida

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Terje steb 2020

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