Early Christianity in East Africa and Red Sea/Indian Ocean Commerce

Seland, Eivind Heldaas

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“…Some scholars argue that this conversion was a top-down process, with the court initially adopting Christianity, and the wider population only following sometime later (e.g. Hable Selassie 1972: 104; Kaplan 1982; Phillipson 2009: 30; contra Seland 2014). The recent discovery of a fourth-century church at Beta Samati (Ethiopia) (Harrower et al 2019; Bausi et al 2020), as well as the work reported here from Adulis, however, provide an enlarged dataset with which to revisit interpretations of the adoption of Christianity in the Kingdom of Aksum.…”

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An archaeology of conversion? Evidence from Adulis for early Christianity and religious transition in the Horn of Africa

Castiglia

2022

Antiquity

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The port-city of Adulis in modern Eritrea was a key node on the Red Sea linking the Kingdom of Aksum to the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Recent excavations at Adulis have reinvestigated two early Christian churches. New radiocarbon analysis dates both structures to the sixth and early seventh centuries AD, with multiple phases of architectural development reflecting changing use and liturgy. The author uses evidence for both continuity and change in architectural materials, construction styles and sacred practices to assess religious transition at Adulis, and across the Aksumite Kingdom more broadly. Moving beyond an archaeology of conversion, the article reinforces recent work on cosmopolitanism in the Horn of Africa.

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An archaeology of conversion? Evidence from Adulis for early Christianity and religious transition in the Horn of Africa

Castiglia

2022

Antiquity

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“…universal rather than locally bounded) religions was their potential to offer social cohesion among its adherents (potentially transcending ethnic and linguistic differences). 45 Something that would be extremely useful to diasporic merchants, sailors, and craftsmen. Buddhist sangha communities, in particular, played an important role in facilitating both overland (Central Asian) and maritime (South and Southeast Asian) trading activity in the early to mid-centuries CE, as noted by Simmons, Cobb, and Cohen.…”

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Connecting the ancient Afro-Eurasian world

Cobb

2023

Journal of Global History

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This introductory article sets out the global historical approach adopted by the articles in this special issue, focusing on the circulations of goods, peoples, and ideas in ancient Afro-Eurasia (300 BCE-700 CE). Special attention is given to the overland Silk Road and Indo-Pacific networks of maritime exchange. Our aims are to apply globalization thinking to a wider (macro) frame than has arguably been done in existing ancient world studies, to ensure that sufficient focus is maintained on how the local and global intersect, and to demonstrate the analytical utility of concepts connected to globalization and glocalization. Ultimately, we seek to go beyond merely applying theories of globalization to new data, but to use these data to offer an alternative approach to the study of global Antiquity.

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Christian and Sogdian Traders, and the Indo-Sasanian Trade

Kumar

2023

Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies

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Early Christianity in East Africa and Red Sea/Indian Ocean Commerce

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

An archaeology of conversion? Evidence from Adulis for early Christianity and religious transition in the Horn of Africa

An archaeology of conversion? Evidence from Adulis for early Christianity and religious transition in the Horn of Africa

Connecting the ancient Afro-Eurasian world

Christian and Sogdian Traders, and the Indo-Sasanian Trade

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