Publications of Serawit Bekele Debele

Debele, S. B.: Locating politics in Ethiopia's Irreecha ritual. Brill, Leiden (2019)

Stasik, M.; Debele, S. B.; Hänsch, V. (Eds.): Temporalities of waiting in Africa (Special issue). Critical African Studies 12, (1) (2020)

Debele, S. B.: Waiting as a site of subject formation: examining collective prayers by Ethiopian asylum seekers in Germany. L’attente en tant que site de formation sur le sujet: étude des prièrescollectives par les demandeurs d’asile éthiopiens en Allemagne. Critical African Studies 12 (1), pp. 52 - 64 (2020)

Debele, S. B.: Of taming carnal desire. Imperial roots of legislating sexual practices in contemporary Ethiopia. History of the Present 10 (1), pp. 84 - 100 (2020)

Debele, S. B.: Marriage and empire: Consolidation in post-liberation Ethiopia (1941-74). The Journal of African History (2020)

Debele, S. B.: Reading prayers as political texts: reflections on Irreecha ritual in Ethiopia. Politics, Religion & Ideology 19 (3), pp. 354 - 370 (2018)

Debele, S. B.: Confronting “disunity”: Indigenous religions as critics of politics in Africa. Journal of Africana Religions 6 (2), pp. 190 - 207 (2018)

Debele, S. B.: Religion and politics in post-1991 Ethiopia: making sense of Bryan S. Turner’s ‘Managing Religions’. Religion, State and Society 46 (1), pp. 26 - 42 (2018)

Ilengiz, Ç.; Debele, S. B.; Kirbis, A.: [Blog Post:] Heritage out of control: Introduction. (2022)

Debele, S. B.: ‘Clemency oh Waaq for the blood of the Oromo’. Praying to soothe social suffering. In: Fighting in God's Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives (Eds. Adogame, A.; Olufunke Adeboye, O. A.; Corey L. Williams , C. L. W.). Lexington Books, Lanham (2020)

Debele, S. B.: Females’ subversive interventions in the religious field in Ethiopia. In: Female Leaders in New Religious Movements, pp. 189 - 209 (Eds. Tøllefsen, I. B.; Giudice, C.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2017)

Debele, S. B.: Contested heritage. The ‘coul-touristic’ turn in the celebration of Irreecha ritual in Ethiopia. In: Religious pluralism, heritage and social development in Africa (Eds. Green, M. C.; Hackett, R. I. J.; Hansen, L. D.; Venter, F.). African Sun Media, Matieland (2017)