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Abstract
Contemporary Ethiopia is home to followers of the three “Book religions” in different proportions and historicity. The largest number, Christians (almost 68 % of the national population according to the April 2019 census), do not form a united family and represent several dogmatic and theological orientations. Muslims (31 % of the population), although they appear less mixed in the first place (Sunna confreric), are far from uniform. Even Ethiopian Jews — commonly known as Falasha’s pejorative name — before their alya (migration to Israel) in 1984 and 1991, had developed a unique facet of Judaism that was unaware of Talmud while adopting monachism. While Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christians (4th century), with an autocephal church which has continued, there is now also a Catholic Church of Ethiopia and, above all, an increasing galaxy of evangelical, pentecôtist and neo-pentecôtist Protestant churches...