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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.
Tibebe Eshete is Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of Jijiga: The History of a Strategic Town in the Horn of Africa and My Journey: The Deranged Life and Divine Grace.
AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church1: From the Early Church to Early Modernity2: The Challenge of Modernity and the Need for ReformPart II: The Evangelical Church in Ethiopia3: The First Three Centuries of Reformed Missions4: The War Years and the Restoration (1936-1959)5: Post-War Mission Impulses6: Keys to Post-War GrowthPart III: The Pentecostal Church7: The 1960s Rise of Pentecostalism8: Independence and PersecutionPart IV: The Ethiopian Revolution (1974-1990)9: The Political Seeds of Revolution10: Early Church-State Relations under Communist Rule11: Ecumenism and Flexibility12: Underground ""Free"" Space and Lay Leadership13: The Commitment Factor and the Role of Resistance in Church Growth14: Evangelical Christianity and the Legacy of the RevolutionConclusionInformantsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
A very welcome contribution to the understudied subject of the history of Protestant religion in Ethiopia. -- Liza Debevec -- Journal of Religion in Africa
