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Haustein, Jörg (2011) Writing Religious History: The Historiography of Ethiopian Pentecostalism. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Studien zur außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika); 17)

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Abstract

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 fi rst 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).

Item Type: Authored Books
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies > Department of Religions & Philosophies
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of the Study of Religions
ISBN: 9783447065283
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc16prg
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2013 09:26
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17044

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