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Writing Religious History: The Historiography of Ethiopian Pentecostalism (Studien Zur Aussereuropaischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, … World (Asia, Africa, Latin America))

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The growth and spread of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity is likely one of the more salient features of Ethiopia’s contemporary religious history. Then again, this process has hardly been addressed by academic studies previously. In response to original field work and archival research, Jorg 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. Additionally, the study seeks to explore how the fictional, political and ideological aspects of its historical sources could also be positively employed as a way to analyze the genesis and proliferation of religious identities. In dialog with post-structuralist theories of historiography, Haustein thereby develops a basic approach to spiritual history which centrally accomodates the discursive nature of historical knowledge. Writing Religious History was once 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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