Religion-Regime Relations in Zimbabwe
Co-operation and Resistance
- 240 pages
- English
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Religion-Regime Relations in Zimbabwe
Co-operation and Resistance
About this book
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction Religion-Regime Relations in Zimbabwe: Co-operation and Resistance
- 1 āThe March is Not Ended!ā ZCBCās Pastoral Letter, God and the Crises of Politics in Zimbabwe
- 2 The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ) and the Politics of Zimbabwe: Silence and Critical Solidarity
- 3 Depoliticising the Pastoral Role of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe in the Second Republic
- 4 āPrisoners of Hope?ā Pentecostalism, Politics and the Quest for a New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
- 5 Who is Doomed, Prophets or Politicians?: Religion and Politics in Zimbabweās New Dispensation
- 6 A Change for No Change: The Ambivalence of Religion in the Second Republic in Zimbabwe
- 7 Religion and Politics in Zimbabweās Second Republic: Goodwill Partners?
- 8 Islam and Politics in Zimbabweās Second Republic
- 9 The Appropriation of the Bible in the Zimbabwean Narrative by the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference: Lessons for the Second Republic
- 10 Interrogating Responses to the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominationsā Call for a National Political Sabbath for Trust Building and Confidence Building
- 11 Religion, Politics and Veteran Masculinities in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
- 12 The Role of Theology in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Insights from the Rise of the Monarchy in the Hebrew Bible
- 13 Contested Interpretations: The Case of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora in the United Kingdom Responding to the New Dispensation
- Index