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This groundbreaking volume explores how religious communities make sense of political loss, social marginalization, and the collapse of an established political order, as well as what their experiences tell us about the nature of political transition itself. The book highlights the experiences of Ethiopia's Orthodox Christian community, and the radically altered political landscape that Orthodox Christians have faced since the 1974 revolution that ended imperial rule. Drawing on the religious idea of a special covenant between God and the Orthodox community, the book examines how believers have interpreted their changing place in Ethiopian society .
By tracing the historical transformation of these religious ideas, the book demonstrates that the contemporary conflicts affecting Ethiopia, particularly in the Amhara region, cannot be understood solely through the lenses of ethnicity, state power, or electoral politics. They are also shaped by deeply rooted religious imaginations that inform how communities understand history, legitimacy, belonging, and political authority. The book also offers a broader intervention in the study of political transition in Africa. Rather than treating transition as a process defined primarily by democratization, elections, and market reform, it asks how political change is understood by those who live through it. Through an analysis of the Orthodox concept of Qale, the book reveals how religious concepts can provide alternative frameworks for interpreting political transformation. Bringing together the study of religion, politics, and social change, this book challenges conventional understandings of political transition in Africa.
