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Abidemism
Members of the Abidemist Church celebrating Christmas
Type	New christian religious movement
Classification	Bahian-initiated church
Theology	Pentecostal
Region	Asase Lewa
Language	Asalewan
Founder	Abidemi Omolayo
Origin	January 1913
Members	7 million

Abidemism is a millennarian and Charismatic Sotirian new religious movement in Asase Lewa founded by Abidemi Omolayo in 1913. A postmillennial faith, Abidemism regards Abidemi as an incarnation of the Holy Spirit sent to prophesy an imminent apocalyptic war taking the form of an anti-colonial and class war that would inaugurate the Millennium, followed by the Second Coming and Last Judgment. Abidemism synthesizes this millenarian doctrine with Pentecostal liturgical practices, most prominently footwashing, glossolalia, Baptism with the Holy Spirit, and faith healing, and with highly Puritan ethics, including the practice of vegetarianism and community of goods and strict prohibitions on alcohol, tobacco, polygamy, magic and witchcraft, and dancing.

Originating in the early twentieth century as an outgrowth of the Oathing movement, Abidemism has historically suffered from intense state repression in Asase Lewa. Its revolutionary and millenarian doctrines meant it competed with the Asalewan Section of the Workers' International for the affections of the early twentieth-century Asalewan lower classes and received significant suppression by Estmerish colonial authorities soon after it became widespread. The Abidemist Church was also intensely suppressed by the Asalewan Section and early revolutionary socialist state as part of its policy of state atheism, and the Lokpa Spiritual Freedom Army adopted a variant of the faith during the Lokpaland insurgency. Nevertheless, the religion survived decades of persecution, and the Pyschological-Technological Revolution of the early 1980s resulted in the legalization of the pro-government Revolutionary Abidemist Church. One of the largest Bahian-initiated churches outside the Brethren Church, Abidemism is today the only growing major religious denomination in Asase Lewa and its adherents in the country number approximately 7 million people, roughly one-tenth of the country's population.