ABSTRACT
This chapter shows healing, that are regarded by the Zionists as demon possession. Both imikhokha and demons have to be washed away by a definite system of ritual purification. The chapter discusses the taboos against medicines. It analyses some of the more important elements of the services, in order to study recent developments and possible trends, concentrating on the preaching, the praying and the singing, and connected ritual forms, as integral parts of Ethiopian and Zionist ceremonials, and finally the problem of so-called emotionalism in the service. In the Ethiopian church service the sermon still plays the central role. People who worship God on Sunday are hypocrites, for if they study the Scriptures they would find that they ought to worship on Saturday. The Western form of worship practised in the Mission Church is felt as an unnatural straitjacket. The religious interpretation of illness as being caused by sin is given on various occasions.
