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SUMMARY:Dr Diego Maria Malara: Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesi
 s\, Historicity\, and the Demonization of Protestantism in Ethiopian Ort
 hodox Exorcism
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Diego Maria Malara\, University of Glasgow \n\nChaired by 
 Sebastien Bachelet \n\nTitle: Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesi
 s\, Historicity\, and the Demonization of Protestantism in Ethiopian Ort
 hodox Exorcism\n\nAbstract: This talk will examine the exorcism of Prote
 stant spirits from Ethiopian Orthodox hosts in Addis Ababa. This controv
 ersial ritual practice is animated by the necessity to draw clear distin
 ctions and boundaries between Protestantism and Orthodoxy\, at a time of
  intense religious liberalisation. At first sight\, the exorcism of Prot
 estant spirits seems to provide an occasion to reaffirm the centrality o
 f local Orthodoxy to Ethiopian identity\, construing Protestantism as a 
 foreign religion at odds with the country’s ancient Christian history. H
 owever\, this ritual project is marked by profound ambiguities\, as the 
 means\, aesthetics and themes of exorcism appear suspiciously similar to
  Protestant ones. By foregrounding ambiguity and mimesis\, I aim to illu
 strate how exorcism publicly exposes and vividly magnifies the irreparab
 le permeability of the very inter-religious boundaries that it seeks to 
 demarcate. In contrast to understandings of ritual as an ordering proces
 s\, I suggest that exorcism is a hazardous event that balances uncertain
 ly on the edge of the ever-present risk of becoming the other\, producin
 g its own excessive forms of indeterminacy and disorder.\n\nAccess Here:
  https://zoom.us/j/94209216674 \n\nMeeting ID: 942 0921 6674\n\nPasscode
 : 114642\n
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