Tilahun Bejitual Zellelew
Biographic Data
| ID | 1382723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tilahun Bejitual Zellelew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tilahun Bejitual |
| FAMILY NAME | Zellelew |
| SIGNATURE | ZELLELEW T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergamo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Semiotics of the “Christian/Muslim Knife”
The knife, a synecdoche of slaughtering, is an important culinary tool that is charged with the power of religious speech acts and that has a significant semiotic function in Christian-Muslim encounters in Ethiopia. The slaughtering rituals not only transform the neutral natural animal into a sacred cultural food but also invest the meat with an intense aura of disgust among followers of the other faith. The slaughtering narratives continue to ma…
Meat abstinence and its positive environmental effect
Meat abstinence, as is practiced in some religions, has a positive impact on reducing the damages that the process of meat production inflicts on the environment. The Ethiopian Orthodox Christians observe fasting by abstaining from meat for more than half a year, and this seems to do the environment and economy some good. Religion has been playing a regulatory role between ever-increasing meat demands and the country's fast-growing meat and live …
The Semiotics of the “Christian/Muslim Knife”
The knife, a synecdoche of slaughtering, is an important culinary tool that is charged with the power of religious speech acts and that has a significant semiotic function in Christian-Muslim encounters in Ethiopia. The slaughtering rituals not only transform the neutral natural animal into a sacred cultural food but also invest the meat with an intense aura of disgust among followers of the other faith. The slaughtering narratives continue to ma…
Meat abstinence and its positive environmental effect
Meat abstinence, as is practiced in some religions, has a positive impact on reducing the damages that the process of meat production inflicts on the environment. The Ethiopian Orthodox Christians observe fasting by abstaining from meat for more than half a year, and this seems to do the environment and economy some good. Religion has been playing a regulatory role between ever-increasing meat demands and the country's fast-growing meat and live …
The Semiotics of the “Christian/Muslim Knife”
The knife, a synecdoche of slaughtering, is an important culinary tool that is charged with the power of religious speech acts and that has a significant semiotic function in Christian-Muslim encounters in Ethiopia. The slaughtering rituals not only transform the neutral natural animal into a sacred cultural food but also invest the meat with an intense aura of disgust among followers of the other faith. The slaughtering narratives continue to ma…
Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Abstinence (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture analysis (1 work) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Business (1 work)