Some personal hints

I was born in Barcelona, 15th July 1972. My mother tongue is Catalan, but I also speak fluently Spanish, though with a very strong Catalan accent. I currently live in the hometown of Aby Warburg, a place with many similarities to my own hometown but much colder and wet. Before, I spent some periods in the places that saw Andrea del Sarto, Claude Lévi-Strauss and JaumeSisa's genius.

Academic Path

I am currently working as a part-time researcher at the University of Hamburg, in the Sonderfoschungsbereich 520-C3 "Historische Umbrüche und ihre Bewältigung im Orbis Aethiopicus. Ursachen und Nachwirkungen religiös-ethnischer Konflikte" and I am also part of the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, a publication that will condense knowledge on Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Horn of Africa. Besides, I keep -slowly, but I hope, successfully- preparing a PhD on History on the Jesuit Ethiopian Mission (XVIth-XVIIth cent.), that I started in 1998 at the European University Institute. Before that, I studied for a year African Anthropology at the EHESS in Paris ("Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies") and Anthropology for 5 years at the University of Barcelona (Degree in Social Anthropology).

Details on the PhD on the Jesuit Ethiopian Mission (XVIth-XVIIth cent.):

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Publications

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More on the "Historical Index of Religious Missions"

Max Weber in the Cyberspace

As said in the front page, this is a site mostly adressed to students and researchers dealing in various ways with problems of conversion, proselytism and missioning. Sociologists of religion, historians and anthropologists will find here material of interest for the study of this phenomena. They can use the site as a directory through which easily reach further information on more concrete problems related to religion. Besides, the site can also serve to have a broad overview on how the different faiths and religions have coped with the internet and are efficiently and skillfully using it as a means to transmite, communicate and pass their various messages. Thus, the researcher is invited to look at the pages listed here as sources in itself; sources of religious and spiritual mouvements that just a decade ago ignored, as did the whole society, the enormous possibilities offered by electronic communication. The study of these new ways of "electronic proselytism" can contribute with new elements to the more general discussion that was initiated a century and a half ago by modern sociology on the role, place and functioning of faiths and religions in human life.

Contact

Andreu Martínez
C/O Encyclopaedia Aethiopica
Uni. Hamburg,
Edmund Siemers Allee 1
Hamburg 20146
Germany
Tel: +49-(0)40-42838.7777
Fax: +49-(0)40-42838.3330
E-mail: andres.martinez@iue.it

A picture

During a trip to Ethiopia, with Professor Bresaola, Dr. Tausendtante, myself and Dr. and Mss. Mauseiev