Religion and Revolution in Maale, Ethiopia, 1974-84

授予斯坦福大学的这一奖项将使研究者能够 研究埃塞俄比亚的社会历史 革命，因为它是在该国的一个偏远地区所经历的 从1974年到1984年。 投资者在以下方面具有丰富的经验： 国家，并将研究宗教的作用，因为它影响 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”性质使其成为一个 与“底层社会”相比， “中国和俄罗斯的革命经验。 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的广泛经验 这一情况使他能够解释当地的意义， 革命 在一个政治动荡无处不在的世界里， 对我们理解革命是如何 经验丰富的将帮助我们处理不同国家的 世界，因为他们制定了不同的政治安排。

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.