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The growth and spread of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity is one of the more salient features of Ethiopia's recent religious history. However, this process has hardly been addressed by academic studies in the past. Based on original field work and archival research, Jörg Haustein presents the first detailed history of Ethiopian Pentecostalism, from the first Pentecostal mission efforts and the beginnings of an indigenous movement in Imperial Ethiopia to the political constraints of the Derg time and the spread of the movement into the mainline Protestant churches. Moreover, the study seeks to explore how the fictional, political and ideological aspects of its historical sources may be positively employed in order to analyze the genesis and proliferation of religious identities. In dialog with post-structuralist theories of historiography, Haustein thereby develops a basic approach to religious history which centrally accomodates the discursive nature of historical knowledge.Writing Religious History was awarded with the Ruprecht-Karls-Preis of the University of Heidelberg (2011) and the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise (2011).
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Parameters for a Historyof Ethiopian Pentecostalism
- 2 Relating to Missionary Beginnings: The Finnish and Swedish Pentecostal Missions in Ethiopia
- 3 Discovering Origins: Ethiopian Revival Movements and the Foundation of a Pentecostal Church
- 4 Defining the Politics of Persecution: Pentecostals in the Ethiopian Empire
- 5 Accounting for the Underground: Persecution and the Proliferation of Pentecostalism During the Derg
- 6 Conclusion: Writing Religious History
- Bibliography
- Archives and Collections
- List of Informants
- Index