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Religion-Regime Relations in Zimbabwe

Religion-Regime Relations in Zimbabwe
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000916057

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This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious institutions. Using co-operation and resistance as an analytical framework, the book shows how different religious organisations have interacted with Emmerson Mnangagwa’s "Second Republic", following Robert Mugabe’s departure from the political scene. In particular, through case studies on the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference and Pentecostals, African Traditional Religions, Islam, and others, the book explores how different religious institutions have responded to Mnangagwa’s new regime. Chapters highlight the complexities characterising the religion-regime interface, showing how the same religious organisation might co-operate and resist at the same time. Furthermore, the book compares how religious institutions co-operated or resisted Mugabe’s earlier regime to identify patterns of continuity and change. Overall, the book highlights the challenges of deploying simplistic frames in efforts to understand the interface between politics and religion. A significant contribution to global scholarship on religion-regime interfaces, this book will appeal to academics and students in the field of Religious Studies, Political Science, History and African Studies


Religious Leaders and the Regime in the Second Republic of Zimbabwe

Religious Leaders and the Regime in the Second Republic of Zimbabwe
Author: Bekithemba Dube
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666936782

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Religious Leaders and the Regime in the Second Republic of Zimbabwe looks at the nexus of religion and politics in Zimbabwe. Religious leaders and institutes are discussed as either regime enablers, resistors, or transformers. This book focuses on how religion has played a role in thwarting democracy and has acted as a machine to silence dissenting voices, repression, and poor governance. The book addresses religious figures such as Andrew Wutawunashe, Talent Chiwenga, Bishop Mutendi, and Mapostori. In discussing these figures, the book highlights how ZANU PF has taken advantage of religious power to thwart democracy while rewarding regime enablers. The book also discusses the road to 2023 Zimbabwean elections and highlights the role of the church in creating an enabling and catastrophic environment. This book challenges oppressive systems perpetrated by religious leaders and politicians.


Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-PFism in Zimbabwe

Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-PFism in Zimbabwe
Author: Bekithemba Dube
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031460847

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This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe. It scrutinizes the actions of religious leaders such Andrew Wutawunashe and Jeremiah Mutendi who were prominent in the political scene and participated as enablers of the undemocratic regime. The contributors to this volume employ a variety of methodological approaches to understand the operational dilemma of the second republic under Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, commonly referred to as Zanupfism. It is an empirical study to determine the impact of religious leaders as regime enablers and assess the effects of such an approach in terms of social development, democracy, and social transformation as espoused in the rise of the second republic. In order to balance the narrative, the book highlights and offers critique of religious leaders and institutes who are the resistors of the regime. It specifically explores the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference, Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Talent Chiwenga and Shingi Munyeza. This is a critical study of decoloniality in a religious context that documents characters such as Shingi Mayeza, Bishop Mutendi, Mapostori who seldomly appear in scholarship despite their great impact (either positive or negative) on the lives of the people of Zimbabwe.


Politics and Religion in Zimbabwe

Politics and Religion in Zimbabwe
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2020-04-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000054195

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This book illustrates how religion and ideology were used by Robert Mugabe to ward off opposition within his own party, in Zimbabwe and from the West. An interdisciplinary line up of contributors argue that Mugabe used a calculated narrative of deification – presenting himself as a divine figure who had the task of delivering land, freedom and confidence to black people across the world – to remain in power in Zimbabwe. The chapters highlight the appropriation and deployment of religious themes in Mugabe’s domestic and international politics, reflect on the contestation around the deification of Mugabe in Zimbabwean politics across different forms of religious expression, including African Traditional Religions and various strands of Christianity and initiate further reflections on the interface between religion and politics in Africa and globally. Politics and Religion in Zimbabwe will be of interest to scholars of religion and politics, Southern Africa and African politics.


Reconciliation and Religio-political Non-conformism in Zimbabwe

Reconciliation and Religio-political Non-conformism in Zimbabwe
Author: Joram Tarusarira
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317070518

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Religio-political organisations in Zimbabwe play an important role in advocating democratisation and reconciliation, against acquiescent, silenced or co-opted mainstream churches. Reconciliation and Religio-political Non-conformism in Zimbabwe analyses activities of religious organisations that deviate from the position of mainline churches and the political elites with regard to religious participation in political matters, against a background of political conflict and violence. Drawing on detailed case studies of the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA), Churches in Manicaland (CiM) and Grace to Heal (GtH), this book provocatively argues that in the face of an unsatisfactory religious and political culture, religio-political non-conformists emerge seeking to introduce a new ethos even in the face of negative sanctions from dominant religious and political systems.


Christianity and Traditional Religions of Zimbabwe

Christianity and Traditional Religions of Zimbabwe
Author: Paradzayi David Mubvumbi, PhD
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1512745103

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This book tells the truth about what happened and is still happening in Zimbabwe, concerning local religions and Christianity. This book will lead you to seek and search the truth from the Bible so that people will determine their relationship with God. Are you following God the right way or wrong way? This book will help. (A portion of proceeds from the sale of this book is going to help funding some disadvantaged children of Zimbabwe to build their better lives through education)


Religion and Social Marginalization in Zimbabwe

Religion and Social Marginalization in Zimbabwe
Author: Togarasei, Lovemore
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-07-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3863097459

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"Marginalization means being disregarded, ostracized, harassed, disliked, persecuted, or generally looked down upon. Marginalized people often include women and children, the poor, the disabled, sexual, religious, or ethnic minorities, refugees. The marginalized are those who are socially, politically, culturally, or economically excluded from main-stream society. In history, the Church in Zimbabwe has played a role in improving the lives of the marginalized, but what is religion, especially Christianity, doing for the marginalized now? Although religion is also implicated in marginalisation, the contributions in this volume did not address this angle as they focused on the role that religion can and should play to fight marginalization. The chapters come from two conferences (2012, 2014) that were held under the flag of ATISCA. The contributions have been updated to include later developments and publications"--


Religion and Regimes

Religion and Regimes
Author: Mehran Tamadonfar
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0739176110

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This work is a collection of essays that describe and analyze religion and regime relations in various nations in the contemporary world. The contributors examine patterns of interaction between religious actors and national governments that include separation, support, and opposition. In general, the contributors find that most countries have a majority or plurality religious tradition, which will seek a privileged position in public life. The nature of the relationship between such traditions and national policy is largely determined by the nature of opposition. A pattern of quasi-establishment is most common in settings in which opposition to a dominant religious tradition is explicitly religious. However, in some instances, the dominant tradition is associated with a discredited prior regime, in which a pattern of legal separation is most common. Conversely, in some nations, a dominant religion is, for historical reasons, strong associated with national identity. Such regimes are often characterized by a “lazy monopoly,” in which the public influence of religion is reduced.


Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe

Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781350363915

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"This book examines the invention of Zimbabwe's "New Dispensation," the regime of Emmerson D. Mnangagwa. The contributors examine the use of time, theological ideas and religious practices to separate Mnangagwa's regime from Robert G. Mugabe's. They explore how religious ideas and ideals within the religious marketplace become building blocks and material for creating a New Dispensation"--


Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe, Volume 2

Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe, Volume 2
Author: Molly Manyonganise
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2023-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031247361

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Zimbabwe has invested in women’s emancipation and leadership while articulating a strong Pan-Africanist ideology, providing a valuable entry point into understanding the dynamics relating to women’s leadership in Africa. It is also characterised by radical religious pluralism, thereby facilitating an appreciation of the impact of religion on women’s leadership in Africa more generally. This volume reflects on the role of Zimbabwean women in religio-cultural leadership, with a specific focus on roles within religious organizations. It begins by examining Zimbabwean church women’s leadership roles in long established faith communities. The chapters then hone in on the emergence of churches or ministries founded by women in Zimbabwe, starting from the pre-colonial era and advancing through the last forty years of independence. Hence, the book offers a comprehensive assessment of the challenges and opportunities women in leadership face in religious institutions in the country, before exploring the impact of the pandemic on the ability of women to lead. It will make a major contribution to the advancement of scholarship of gender and leadership in emerging markets.