Ethiopism

Ethiopism (also called Ethiopianism ) describes a religious movement that arose in Africa and the USA in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The followers of Ethiopianism take the view that the biblical promises preferentially concern the African population and strive for the development of a specifically African spirituality and an independent African church, which u. a. has existed in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church since 316. In addition, Ethiopian Judaism is one of the oldest Jewish tendencies, even if most of the Ethiopian Jews (Falascha) now live in Israel.

The Nation of Islam and the Rastafari represent an Ethiopian theology ; The latter feel connected to both the Tewahedo Church and the Falascha.

literature

• Holy Piby
• Klaus Koschorke: Perspectives on Interaction with the Other - Emancipation Efforts by indigenous Christian elites in India and West Africa at the turn of the century . In: Dietmar Rothermund (Ed.): Appropriation and self-assertion. Answers to European expansion . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56432-3 , p. 203-216 .