A Step Further in Tolerance: Recognition, Respect, Appreciation, and Acceptance- Juniper Publishers

Archaeology & Anthropology- Juniper Publishers

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Keywords: Recognition; Respect; Appreciation; Acceptance; Tolerance; Wollo; Acquired; Cultured; Mewlid holiday; Communication culture; Reproductive; Legitimacy; Trinity; Tsebel; Fragrance


Religious Tolerance in Wollo: Acquired and Cultured

The Muslim-Christian society of Wollo has peacefully coexisted for a long time. Tolerance is a very important value which they have maintained. In their language use, it appears to be an important discourse that has been valued by the people [1]. For example, in the poems of Sheikh Hussein Jibril, the following verses are found:
Our country Ethiopia gets her hair done well,
She wears perfume and good fragrance,
Rome and Turkey smells her,
with plane on the air and with tank on the ground,
They have come and stayed fit,
Hailesilasie is her right husband though,
We have prayed; let the Trinity bless it.
The last verse of this poem states that the Muslims pray to their God and the Trinity (Christian's God) also bless Ethiopian. This implies that the poet accepts the legitimacy of both religions as sacred. Such expressions are used for the purpose of solidarity.
The people of Wollo live tolerance. They have owned it [2]. They have valued, cultured and made it their habit. On a Mewlid holiday ceremony, one Wolloye Said the following:
As explained in the extract, the experience of the practice of religious tolerance in Wollo is exemplary. Religious tolerance is acquired and cultured in Wollo. The Muslim-Christian society of Wollo has peacefully co-existed for a long time [3]. Tolerance is a very important value which they have maintained. In their language use, it appears to be an important discourse that has been valued by the people. For example, in the poems of Sheikh Hussein Jibril, the following verses are found:
Our country Ethiopia gets her hair done well,
She wears perfume and good fragrance,
Rome and Turkey smells her,
with plane on the air and with tank on the ground,
They have come and stayed fit,
Hailesilasie is her right husband though,
We have prayed; let the Trinity bless it. (74)
The last verse of this poem states that the Muslims pray to their God and the Trinity (Christian's God) also bless Ethiopian. This implies that the poet accepts the legitimacy of both religions as sacred. Such expressions are used for the purpose of solidarity [4,5].


A Step Further in Tolerance: Recognition, Respect, Appreciation, and Acceptance (Figure 1)

Tolerance requires recognition, respect and appreciation of different ways of living. The diversified community of the world need to recognize each other's different ways of living; respect it as it naturally is; and if possible appreciate each other’s systems of living. If the diverse world community manages to do just these, it can be said that they practice tolerance.
As the community themselves describe their communication culture and as the researcher has observed them, the Wollo community is doing much more than these. There is one more step further in practicing tolerance. The Wollo community understands the value of tolerance and develops it to its possible highest level [6].
The Wollo people do not stop at appreciation, but take one further step forward and accept and practice the different systems. They practice each others' systems as observed in the following discourse as social practices.
Some of the discourses that the people own are the following:

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