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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
This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of
lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often
controversially translated as 'bridewealth') is an entrenched
practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a
long tradition, of late there have been voices questioning its
relevance in contemporary times while others vehemently defend the
practice. This book brings together a range of scholars from
different academic disciplines, national contexts, institutions,
genders, and ethnic backgrounds to debate the relevance of lobola
in contemporary southern African communities for gender equality.
This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of
lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often
controversially translated as 'bridewealth') is an entrenched
practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a
long tradition, of late there have been voices questioning its
relevance in contemporary times while others vehemently defend the
practice. This book brings together a range of scholars from
different academic disciplines, national contexts, institutions,
genders, and ethnic backgrounds to debate the relevance of lobola
in contemporary southern African communities for gender equality.
This edited book offers an engaging portrait into a vital,
religious movement inside this southern Africa country. It tells
the story of a community of faith that is often overlooked in the
region. The authors include leading scholars of religion, theology,
and politics from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The insights they present
will help readers understand the place of Pentecostal Christianity
in this land of many religions. The chapters detail a history of
the movement from its inception to the present. Chapters focus on
specific Pentecostal churches, general doctrine of the movement,
and the movement's contribution to the country. The writing is
deeply informed and features deep historical, theological, and
sociological analysis throughout. Readers will also learn about the
socio-political and economic relevance of the faith in Zimbabwe as
well as the theoretical and methodological implications raised by
the Pentecostalisation of society. The volume will serve as a
resource book both for teaching and for those doing research on
various aspects of the Zimbabwean society past, present, and
future. It will be a good resource for those in schools and
university and college departments of religious studies, theology,
history, politics, sociology, social anthropology, and related
studies. Over and above academic and research readers, the book
will also be very useful to government policy makers,
non-governmental organizations, and civic societies who have the
Church as an important stakeholder.
This edited book offers an engaging portrait into a vital,
religious movement inside this southern Africa country. It tells
the story of a community of faith that is often overlooked in the
region. The authors include leading scholars of religion, theology,
and politics from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The insights they present
will help readers understand the place of Pentecostal Christianity
in this land of many religions. The chapters detail a history of
the movement from its inception to the present. Chapters focus on
specific Pentecostal churches, general doctrine of the movement,
and the movement's contribution to the country. The writing is
deeply informed and features deep historical, theological, and
sociological analysis throughout. Readers will also learn about the
socio-political and economic relevance of the faith in Zimbabwe as
well as the theoretical and methodological implications raised by
the Pentecostalisation of society. The volume will serve as a
resource book both for teaching and for those doing research on
various aspects of the Zimbabwean society past, present, and
future. It will be a good resource for those in schools and
university and college departments of religious studies, theology,
history, politics, sociology, social anthropology, and related
studies. Over and above academic and research readers, the book
will also be very useful to government policy makers,
non-governmental organizations, and civic societies who have the
Church as an important stakeholder.
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