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| Title: | New perspectives on Ethiopian and African Christianity: communalities and contrasts in twentieth century religious experience |
| Author: | Persoon, Joachim |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 306-336 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | Ethiopian Church African Independent Churches |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/157254305774851493 |
| Abstract: | Long viewed as an island of oriental Semitic Christianity in a sea of Islam, recent developments have increased interaction between Ethiopia and the rest of Africa, including their Christian communities. This paper wonders how the Ethiopian experience can be related to that of the rest of Christian Africa, arguing for a greater recognition of the African dimension in Ethiopian cultural studies. Religion and food are closely related in Ethiopia. Just as the Ethiopian traditional cuisine is absorbing more and more foreign elements, so the 'knowledge buffet' of the current Ethiopian religious scene has since the regime change of 1991 shown increasing influence from religious multinationals. The paper uses the paradigm of a three-course 'knowledge buffet' to describe the parallel development of Ethiopian and African Christianity during the 20th century. Its successive flavours reflect European institutional denominational establishment, subsequently the strengthening of African indigenous elements, and, thirdly, integration in pneumatic international networks. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
