Religion and Revolution in Maale, Ethiopia, 1974-84

授予斯坦福大学的这一奖项将使调查员能够对1974年至1984年埃塞俄比亚革命在该国偏远地区经历的社会历史进行研究。投资人在该国有丰富的经验，并将研究宗教的作用，因为它影响了社会变革的进程。该项目的假设是，埃塞俄比亚革命的“自上而下”性质使其成为一种与中国和俄罗斯的“自下而上”革命经历截然不同的社会过程。这项研究很重要，因为它建立在研究人员对埃塞俄比亚社会状况的丰富先前经验的基础上，使他能够解释革命在当地的意义。在一个政治动荡无处不在的世界里，这样有助于我们理解革命是如何经历的，这将有助于我们处理世界上不同国家制定不同政治安排的问题。

This award to Stanford University will allow the investigator to conduct research on the social history of the Ethiopian revolution as it was experienced in a remote area of the country from 1974 to 1984. The investogator has extensive experience in the country and will study the role of religion as it influenced the course of social change. The hypothesis of the project is that the "top-down" nature of the Ethiopian revolution makes it a fundamentally different sort of social process than the "bottom- up" revolutionary experiences of China and Russia. This research is important because it builds upon the researcher's extensive prior experience with the Ethiopian social situation to allow him to explain the local significance of the revolution. In a world in which political unrest is pervasive, such a contribution to our understanding of how revolutions are experienced will help us deal with the different countries of the world as they work out their different political arrangements.