Religious Change among the Kore

Politics and Christianity in Southwestern Ethiopia

Bibliographic Data

ID13091093
AuthorsAwoke Amzaye Assoma (0000-0002-9000-2573, Washington State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume4
Issue1
Pages29-36
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2331-6187 • E-ISSN: 2331-6179
PublisherHorizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.13189/sa.2016.040105
OpenAlexW2297504916
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

Although the introduction of Christianity to the Kore, southwestern Ethiopia, dates to the 14 th and 15 th 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

Archaeology · Charisma · Christianity · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Religion, Society, and Development

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