ETHIOPIA: PENTECOST AND SIDAM'S POLITICAL SELF-DETERMINATION
The formation of the Sidam region in Ethiopia in 2020, which launched the process of crushing the country's administrative-territorial division, is usually considered from the point of view of ethnic and ethno-political processes. The author showed that a religious factor played an important role in the political self-determination of Sidam, whose action intensified as a result of polarization of the confessional space of Ethiopia. It has been established that the spread of Protestantism, inspired by five-tinding doctrines among this people, contributed to the growth of the Sidam's self -awareness, which had long been subjected to the policy of amcharization. By the beginning of the XXI century. Protestantism, broadcasting the ideas of modernization and democratization among its followers, has become the largest denomination in the region. The consolidation of Sidam during the spiritual and socio-political transformation contributed to the formation of powerful political power. As a result of the consistent struggle lying mainly in the legal field, Sidam achieved their constitutional right to territorial self-determination. The relevance of the study is due to the growing interest in the role of religion as a political factor around the world, in particular, in post-colonial Africa. The example of Sidam is, in fact, the processes that took place in Europe of the 16th century - during the origin and spread of Protestantism and the emergence of the Protestant national states that were separated from the Papal influence on its ideological basis - England, German lands, and the Netherlands. Pentecostal is the most wide-spread Protestant teaching today. This is from the Late Protestan movements of Christianity, which arose in the USA in the second half of the XIXth century. From there it spread to other countries. The novelty of the study is that the indicated problem is subjected to such study for the first time.