Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
The Religious Dimension
- 248 pages
- English
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe: The religious dimension
- 1 Built by God and the ancestors? Interrogating the spiritual and philosophical foundations of the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
- 2 The âGod is in itâ rhetorical dimension of Nelson Chamisaâs political discourse
- 3 âThe voice of the people is the voice of Godâ: Reviewing the theological foundations of the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe
- 4 âI am a listening presidentâ: The New Dispensation, rhetoric and contestation within the ecumenical movement
- 5 Despising the memory of the wounded? A public theological evaluation of President Mnangagwaâs âlet bygones be bygonesâ in a Zimbabwe founded and maintained by violence
- 6 Justifying a coup and the myth of a post-military assisted transition ânew beginningâ in the Jehu revolt and the 2017 Zimbabwe military intervention
- 7 The Bible on the Street: Apocalyptic readings of 2 Kgs 7.2 in light of the âNew Dispensationâ in Zimbabwe
- 8 A âregime-createdâ or a âGod-drivenâ situation? The Zimbabwean experience under the New Dispensation, 2017â23
- 9 Gendering politics and religion in Zimbabweâs New Dispensation: A response to the politics of exclusion
- 10 Expressing missio Dei? A theological critique of religious rhetoric in Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwaâs presidential speeches
- 11 Social media and the revolution gospel in Zimbabwe
- 12 A paradigm shift for the postmodern Church: Moving from the pulpit to the public enterprise for the salvation of all
- Index
- Copyright