Writing religious history
Subtitle: the historiography of Ethiopian Pentecostalism
By: Jörg Haustein
Series: Studien zur Aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) -- Bd. 17 = -- Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) -- v. 17; Studien zur aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) -- Bd. 17.
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783447065283
Subjects: Historiography; History; Missions; Church history; Pentecostalism; Pentecostals
Notes: Slightly revised version of the work originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Heidelberg, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : parameters for a history of Ethiopian Pentecostalism; title: Relating to missionary beginnings : the Finnish and Swedish Pentecostal missions in Ethiopia; title: Discovering origins : Ethiopian revival movements and the foundation of a Pentecostal church; title: Defining the politics of persecution : Pentecostals in the Ethiopian empire; title: Accounting for the underground : persecution and the proliferation of Pentecostalism during the Derg; title: Conclusion : writing religious history.