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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(1), pp. 29 - 36
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040105
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Religious Change among the Kore: Politics and Christianity in Southwestern Ethiopia
Awoke Amzaye Assoma *
Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, USA
ABSTRACT
Although the introduction of Christianity to the Kore, southwestern Ethiopia, dates to the 14th and 15th centuries, it remained marginal until Charismatic-Pentecostal Christianity expanded and transformed the religious landscape of the Kore in the 20th century. This paper explores the historical and political factors behind this surge and its effects on Kore culture and belief. Based on literature review and my field observations, I argue that the religious change in Kore reflects historically varying counter-hegemonic reactions to north Ethiopian domination. Contemporary religious change, the paper will show, needs to be understood as counter-hegemonic reaction capable of reorganizing the Kore culture and belief in particular and the communities of southwestern Ethiopia in general.
KEYWORDS
Kore, Ethiopia, Charismatic-pentecostal Christianity, Counter-hegemonic Reaction
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Awoke Amzaye Assoma , "Religious Change among the Kore: Politics and Christianity in Southwestern Ethiopia," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 29 - 36, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040105.
(b). APA Format:
Awoke Amzaye Assoma (2016). Religious Change among the Kore: Politics and Christianity in Southwestern Ethiopia. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(1), 29 - 36. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040105.