Although the introduction of Christianity to the Kore, southwestern Ethiopia, dates to the 14th and 15th centuries, it remained marginal until Charismatic-Pentecost al Christianity expanded and transformed the religious landscape of the Kore in the 20th century. This paper explores the historical and political factors behind this surge and its effects on Kore culture and belief. Based on literature review and my field observations, I argue that the religious change in Kore reflects historically varying counter-hegemonic reactions to north Ethiopian domination. Contemporary religious change, the paper will show, needs to be understood as counter-hegemonic reaction capable of reorganizing the Kore culture and belief in particular and the communities of southwestern Ethiopia in general.