Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
eBook - PDF

Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe

The Religious Dimension

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe

The Religious Dimension

About this book

How does a regime, whose members have been actively involved in the previous one, appropriate and deploy religious ideas and rhetoric to cast itself as 'born-again' and attractive? Exploring intersections between politics, religion and economics, this book examines invention of Zimbabwe's 'New Dispensation, ' the regime of Emmerson D. Mnangagwa, and how it has aimed to separate itself from the previous regime of Robert G. Mugabe. Utilizing the concept of 'invention', contributors reflect on how Mnangagwa and his publicists deploy religious ideas, concepts and rhetoric in the quest for legitimacy in a heavily contested political field. The book also reflects on the ways opposing political actors have utilized the same template in their quests to secure power. The contributors interrogate the use of time, theological ideas and religious practices to separate Mnangagwa's regime from Mugabe's. This book provides insight into how religious rhetoric is used not only to gain, but also to contest legitimacy in Zimbabwe's political sphere.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781350363908
Edition
0
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
African Politics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction: Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe: The religious dimension
  9. Chapter 1: Built by God and the ancestors?: Interrogating the spiritual and philosophical foundations of the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
  10. Chapter 2: The ‘God is in it’ rhetorical dimension of Nelson Chamisa’s political discourse
  11. Chapter 3: ‘The voice of the people is the voice of God’1: Reviewing the theological foundations of the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
  12. Chapter 4: ‘I am a listening president’: The New Dispensation, rhetoric and contestation within the ecumenical movement
  13. Chapter 5: Despising the memory of the wounded?: A public theological evaluation of President Mnangagwa’s ‘let bygones be bygo es’ in a Zimbabwe founded and maintained by violence
  14. Chapter 6: Justifying a coup and the myth of a post-military assisted transition ‘new beginning’ in the Jehu revolt and the 207 Zimbabwe military intervention
  15. Chapter 7: The Bible on the Street: Apocalyptic readings of 2 Kgs 7.2 in light of the ‘New Dispensation’ in Zimbabwe
  16. Chapter 8: A ‘regime-created’ or a ‘God-driven’ situation?: The Zimbabwean experience under the New Dispensation, 2017–23
  17. Chapter 9: Gendering politics and religion in Zimbabwe’s New Dispensation: A response to the politics of exclusion
  18. Chapter 10: Expressing missio Dei1?: A theological critique of religious rhetoric in Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s presidential speeches
  19. Chapter 11: Social media and the revolution gospel in Zimbabwe
  20. Chapter 12: A paradigm shift for the postmodern Church: Moving from the pulpit to the public enterprise for the salvation of all
  21. Index