Abstract
Evangelical Christianity in Ethiopia shifted significantly during and immediately following the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and the rule of the Derg. The evangelical church battled with a state openly hostile to religions through nonviolent approaches such as refusing to collaborate with its atheistic national projects, creating a counter‐culture community, and by discursively challenging its ideological legitimacy through protest‐oriented gospel songs. What was largely a rural phenomenon became urban, and a process of “nationalization” occurred as the evangelical faith spread to parts of Ethiopia outside its traditional southern mission base. Significantly, the revolution created the opportunity for evangelical Christianity to undergo a process of indigenization.
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