The Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia: Resistance and Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781481307086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 494 str.

Tibebe Eshete

Opis

In this sweeping history, Tibebe Eshete presents a new view of Ethiopian Christianity. Synthesizing existing scholarship with original interviews and archival research, he demonstrates that the vernacular nature of the Ethiopian church played a critical role in the development of a state church. He also traces the effects of the political on the religious: the growth of other "counter-cultural" movements in 1960s Ethiopia, such as renewal movements, youth discontentment, and the Marxist regime (under which the church still flourished). This strikingly authentic work refutes the thesis that evangelicalism was imported. Instead, Eshete shows, it was a genuine indigenous response to cultural pressures.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church
• 1: From the Early Church to Early Modernity
• 2: The Challenge of Modernity and the Need for Reform
• Part II: The Evangelical Church in Ethiopia
• 3: The First Three Centuries of Reformed Missions
• 4: The War Years and the Restoration (1936-1959)
• 5: Post-War Mission Impulses
• 6: Keys to Post-War Growth
• Part III: The Pentecostal Church
• 7: The 1960s Rise of Pentecostalism
• 8: Independence and Persecution
• Part IV: The Ethiopian Revolution (1974-1990)
• 9: The Political Seeds of Revolution
• 10: Early Church-State Relations under Communist Rule
• 11: Ecumenism and Flexibility
• 12: Underground ""Free"" Space and Lay Leadership
• 13: The Commitment Factor and the Role of Resistance in Church Growth
• 14: Evangelical Christianity and the Legacy of the Revolution
• Conclusion
• Informants
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index