Diego Maria Malara's fascinating article discusses the exorcism of Protestant spirits from Ethiopian Orthodox hosts in Addis Ababa.
This controversial ritual is animated by injunctions to draw essential distinctions and boundaries between Protestantism and Orthodoxy, at a time of religious liberalisation. The expulsion of Protestant spirits provides an occasion to reaffirm the centrality of local Orthodoxy to Ethiopian identity,... but at what cost ?
Read here (link)