This article explains the recent emergence of Orthodox Christianity in a majoritarian Evangelical Protestant community in southern Ethiopia. Examining conversion motives and forms of religious engagement, I show that Orthodoxy is attractive to erstwhile followers of traditional practice because it affords them the solution to a value conflict. Joining an institutionalized ‘religion’ associated with national elites, converts attain the respectability formerly denied them by Evangelicals. And since Orthodoxy is less puritan than local Evangelicalism, conversion does not come at the expense of conviviality. An ethnographic discussion of this process of value harmonization provides the basis for a conceptual contribution to anthropological value theory, while also offering new insights for the debate about different modalities of Christian change.

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可敬的欢乐：东正教作为解决埃塞俄比亚南部价值冲突的方法

这篇文章解释了东正教最近在埃塞俄比亚南部的一个多数派福音派新教社区中的出现。通过考察皈依的动机和宗教参与的形式，我表明东正教对传统习俗的昔日追随者具有吸引力，因为它为他们提供了解决价值冲突的方法。加入与国家精英相关的制度化“宗教”，皈依者获得了以前被福音派否认的体面。而且由于东正教不像当地福音派那样清教徒，因此皈依不会以牺牲欢乐为代价。对这一价值协调过程的民族志讨论为人类学价值理论的概念贡献提供了基础，同时也为关于基督教变革的不同方式的辩论提供了新的见解。