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Taringa, Nisbert. "How Environmental is African Traditional Religion?" Exchange 35, no. 2 (2006): 191–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254306776525672.

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AbstractThis article examines some of the beliefs and practices underlying traditional African religion's attitudes to nature with reference to Shona religion of Zimbabwe. At the theoretical level, assuming a romantic view of Shona attitudes to nature, it is possible to conclude that Shona traditional religion is necessarily environmentally friendly. The strong beliefs in ancestral spirits (midzimu), pan-vitalism, kinship, taboo and totems have the potential to bear testimony to this. The aim of this article is to critically examine the extent of the claims that Shona traditional religion is environmentally friendly. It shows that Shona attitudes to nature are in fact discriminative and ambivalent. I argue that the ecological attitude of traditional African religion is more based on fear or respect of ancestral spirits than on respect for nature itself. As a result we need to re-examine Shona attitudes to nature if Shona traditional religion is to re-emerge as a stronger environmental force in the global village. After introductory remarks the article gives an overview background about the Shona focusing on their socio-political organization, world-view and religion. An examination of Shona attitudes to nature focusing on the land, animals, and plant life and water bodies follows. After this there is a reflection on the ethical consequences of Shona attitudes to nature. The last part considers the limits of the romantic view of Shona attitudes to nature.
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Shoko, Tabona, and Dee Burck. "The Etiology of Evil in the Shona Traditional Religion." Studies on Ethno-Medicine 4, no. 2 (August 2010): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09735070.2010.11886368.

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Chitando, Ezra. "‘Faithful Men of a Faithful God’? Masculinities in the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa." Exchange 42, no. 1 (2013): 34–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341249.

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Abstract Many scholars have examined masculinities in African societies. However, these examinations cannot be generalised across Africa, given the socio-cultural, economic, political and historical factors that infringe with religious beliefs. This article offers a case study of masculinities in a specific religious context, the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (zaoga), a Pentecostal church. It utilises zaoga’s teachings on masculinities against the background of Shona religion and culture (the dominant ethnic group in Zimbabwe). The analysis specifically focuses on the role of the Jesus-figure in the discourse on masculinity in zaoga, exploring whether Jesus presents a model of ‘redemptive masculinity’ or rather reinforces hegemonic notions of masculinity. The article highlights the ambiguity of Pentecostal masculinity and offers an overall critique of the effects of masculinities upon Pentecostal faith and practice.
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SAMBISA, WILLIAM, SIAN L. CURTIS, and C. SHANNON STOKES. "ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG UNMARRIED ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN ZIMBABWE." Journal of Biosocial Science 42, no. 1 (October 1, 2009): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932009990277.

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SummaryUnderstanding the social and cultural contextual determinants of sexual behaviour of adolescents and young adults is an essential step towards curtailing the spread of HIV. This study examined the effects of one cultural factor, ethnicity, on sexual abstinence, faithfulness, condom use at last sex, and risky sex among young people in Zimbabwe. Data from the cross-sectional, population-based 2005–06 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey were used. Net of the effect of sociodemographic and social–cognitive factors, and using multinomial logistic regression, ethnicity was found to have a strong and consistent effect on sexual behaviour among youth. In addition, the study found that there were ethnic-specific and within-gender differences in sexual behaviour, for both men and women. Shona youth were more likely to be abstinent than Ndebele youth. Compared with Shona youth, Ndebele youth were more likely to have engaged in risky sex. However, Ndebele men were more likely have used condoms at last sex, compared with Shona men. For both men and women, sexual behaviour was more socially controlled. School attendance and religion exerted protective effects on sexual abstinence. For men only, those living in rural areas were less likely to be faithful and more likely to have engaged in risky sexual behaviour than those living in urban areas. The study attests to the fact that ethnic norms and ideologies of sexuality need to be identified and more thoroughly understood. In addition, the study provides evidence that in order to promote safe and healthy sexuality among young people in Zimbabwe, cultural, social and gender-specific approaches to the development of HIV prevention strategies should be seriously considered. Current success in the Abstinence, Being faithful and Condom use (ABC) approach could be strengthened by recognizing and responding to cultural forces that reproduce and perpetuate risky sexual behaviours.
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Cox, James. "Land Crisis in Zimbabwe." Fieldwork in Religion 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.v1i1.35.

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Earlier this year, I received a small grant from the Edinburgh University Development Trust Fund to determine the feasibility of formulating a major research project exploring the religious dimensions within the recent land resettlement programme in Zimbabwe. Since spirit mediums had played such an important role in the first Shona uprising in 1896–97 against colonial occu¬pation (the so-called First Chimurenga) (Parsons, 1985: 50-51) and again in the war of liberation between 1972 and 1979 (the Second Chimurenga) (Lan, 1985), I suspected that these central points of contact between the spirit world and the living communities would be affecting the sometimes militant invasions of white commercial farms that began sporadically in 1998, but became systematic after the constitutional referendum of February 2000. Under the terms of the grant, I went with my colleague, Tabona Shoko of the University of Zimbabwe, in July and August 2004, to two regions of Zimbabwe: Mount Darwin in the northeast, where recent activities by war veterans and spirit mediums had been reported, and to the Mberengwa District, where land resettlement programmes have been widespread. This article reports on my preliminary findings in Mount Darwin, where I sought to determine if evidence could be found to link the role of Traditional Religion, particularly through spirit mediums, to the current land redistribution programme, and, if so, whether increasing levels of political intolerance within Zimbabwean society could be blamed, in part at least, on these customary beliefs and practices
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Williamson, Tom, Peter Clark, A. G. Hopkins, Rab Houston, Gillian Rose, Stuart Woolf, Adrian Rifkin, et al. "Review of Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land, by Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor; Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London 1670-1830, by John Landers; Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain, 1750-1990, by W. D. Rubinstein; Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity, 1689-c.1830, by Colin Kidd; Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation, by Dorothy Thompson; Land and Economy in Baroque Italy: Valpolicella, 1630-1797, by Peter Musgrave; The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art, and Homosexual Fantasy, by Robert Aldrich; Geographical Inquiry and American Historical Problems, by Carville Earle; Historical Atlas of Canada, Vol. II: The Land Transformed, 1880-1891, by R. Louis Gentilcore; In the Absence of Towns: Settlement and Country Trade in Southside Virginia, 1730-1800, by Charles J. Farmer; North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation, by Terry G. Jordan; From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces, by Helen Buckley; Russian Refuge: Religion, Migration, and Settlement on the North American Pacific Rim, by Susan Wiley Hardwick; La Paz de Dios y del Rey: la Conquista de la Selva Lacandona, 1525-1821. Oro Verde: la Conquista de la Selva Lacandona por los Maderos Tabasqueños, 1822-1949, by Jan de Vos; Haciendas and 'Ayllus': Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Herbert S. Klein; Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of Some Places in the Past, by A. R.H. Baker and G. Bilger; The Early Modern World-System in Georgraphical Perspectie, by Hans-Jurgen Nitz; European Expansion and Migration: Essays on the Intercontinental Migration from Africa, Asia and Europe, by P. C. Emmer and M. Mörner; Mass Migration in Europe: The Legacy and the Future, by Russell King; Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance Book 1: Trade, Missions, Literature; Book 2: South Asia; Book 3: Southeast Asia; Book 4: East Asia, by Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley; The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, by Zeynep Çelik; The Shona and Their Neighbours, by David Beach and Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, by Mary Louise Pratt." Journal of Historical Geography 20, no. 4 (October 1994): 465–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jhge.1994.1037.

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Shoko, Tabona. "The Etiology of Evil in the Shona Traditional Religion." STUDIES ON ETHNO-MEDICINE 04, no. 02 (August 8, 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2010/04.02.06.

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Sande, Nomatter, and Sophia Chirongoma. "Construction of rape culture amongst the Shona indigenous religion and culture: Perspectives from African feminist cultural hermeneutics." HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 77, no. 2 (August 27, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i2.6619.

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Masengwe, Gift, and Francisca H. Chimhanda. "Postmodernism, identity and mission continuity in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe." Verbum et Ecclesia 41, no. 1 (December 7, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v41i1.1906.

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The Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) is a Christian denomination with its own internal substance and purpose in life. However, postmodernist changes have affected the Church’s operation with religious, ethical and spiritual implications. The COCZ engaged in conference centre construction (at Somabhula, Gweru South, Zimbabwe), constitution making (adopted 2014) and further ministerial formation through university education. The study was conducted among the Lukuluba people of Somabhula using qualitative research methods. Activities among the Lukuluba people need to be done in critical review of the church’s ideological duty, discovery of the Lukuluba people’s religious consciousness and development of a contextual pedagogy that appeals to the people’s religious spirituality. The study found the need to review the modes of Lukuluba cultic practices of the Shona Mwari religion for purposes of attaining mission continuity within the community and being mindful of the need to continue in the founding identity of the COCZ.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Identity and mission continuity of the Church of Christ in contemporary Zimbabwean society relates to human creation, baptismal dignity and vocation as systematic theology has ecclesiological, soteriological, incarnational, existential, ecological, biblical, inculturational and missiological implications.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ndau religion/Shona religion"

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Latham, C. J. K. "Mwari and the divine heroes: guardians of the Shona." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004666.

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Buckland, S. G. "Theology and the 'logic of practice' : a study with reference to Shona anthropology, history and religion." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597057.

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Like all practices, anthropological knowledge is situated (in space and time), laborious (taking time and labour, carrying a risk of failure), and directed (oriented in a direction). This situation, labour and direction are specifiable in social and political space, in history. Chapters Two and Three of this dissertation reconstruct the fieldwork and scriptural practices which in recent decades have produced anthropological accounts of some groups of the Shona-speaking peoples of Zimbabwe. Being a practice (or a set of practices), anthropological knowledge can itself become the object of a 'science of practices'. Chapter Four argues that a 'reflexive anthropology', which insists on knowing the social, political, and historical conditions of its own possibility, is necessary to pass beyond 'subjectivism' and 'objectivism' to an 'adequate science of practices'. At the level of theory, such reflexive knowledge quickly opens to an unresolvable infinite regress. It is at the level of practice, and relative to its own (often unspoken) project, that reflexive empiricism is intelligible. Speaking knowingly of God, Christian theology too is a form of laborious practice, situated within specifiable communities and directed within specifiable projects. However, since its holds that its knowledge is both situated, laborious and directed and also 'revealed', it is to an ultimate moral authority that theology lays claim. To speak not just knowingly but also responsibly about God, therefore, theology strains towards reflexive awareness of the social and political conditions of the possibility of its own knowledge, towards opening all its accounts of God's project to a reflexive critique. Its intelligibility is that of a practical form of hope in a future which, with God, remains radically unknown.
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Marashe, Joel. "The African Religious Landscape : an examination of Shona traditional beliefs and practices in light of HIV and AIDS, and its ramifications for mitigation and care." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64367.

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This study examined traditional Shona beliefs and practices in light of HIV/AIDS in the rural communities of the Chipinge District in Zimbabwe. The focus of the study was to examine selected Shona traditional beliefs and practices, and evaluate how they respond to the HIV/AIDS threat. The study aimed to examine the traditional beliefs and practices that people in Chipinge rural communities still practise, have stopped practising, or have modified due to the encroachment of HIV/AIDS into the communities’ socio-moral space. It also aims to discuss the traditional beliefs and practices that are safe and those that expose people to HIV infection, in addition to the communities’ knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Grounded in the traditional Shona religious landscape, and from a phenomenological perspective, the study utilised a qualitative survey research design. Using purposive and snowball sampling procedures, 72 study participants, knowledgeable in the Shona people’s traditional beliefs and practices, were selected. The study used non-scheduled structured interviews and a questionnaire, with both closed and open-ended questions, to gather data from the participants. Most participants defined HIV/AIDS as a blend of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that take time to treat. They believed that AIDS results from ‘pollution’ caused by sexual intercourse with ‘unclean’ women, while a few attributed it to having unprotected sex with an infected partner. Results show that kuputsa (pledged or child marriage), barika (polygamy), and kugara nhaka (wife inheritance) are harmful marriage practices that expose people to HIV infection. As old habits die hard, the study suggests modifications to such marriage practices, where people willing to be involved should take an HIV antibody test. Given that information about HIV/AIDS is communicated through posters and pamphlets written in English, it would benefit the community, if the Ministry of Health and Child Care could provide information in the Ndau language.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
University of Pretoria Postgraduate Bursary
Old Testament Studies
PhD
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Sitshebo, Wilson T. "Towards a theological synthesis of Christian and Shona views of death and the dead : implications for pastoral care in the Anglican diocese of Harare, Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2821/.

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In this contextual study I investigate why and how the traditional approach to mission, engaged by Anglican missionaries, gave rise to a dual observance of ritual among Shona Anglican Christians. I begin by establishing the significance and essence of Shona views of death and the dead, then investigate the missionaries' historical background. I highlight that Christian arrogance, in the guise of racial superiority, underlies the confrontational and condemnatory approach. Traditional views were considered evil, in their place, Shona converts were forced to adopt western Christian views as the only acceptable and valid way of coping with this eschatological reality. These views did not usually fit the Shona worldviews and religious outlook, hence the adoption of dual observance. For some, life continues to be classified as either Christian or traditional and never both. However, some present Shona Anglican practices reflect a desire to integrate the two. Unless there is this integration, the Church remains other and irrelevant to the Shona people. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to advocate for a theological synthesis of Christian and Shona traditional views. I argue that such a synthesis, patterned on the interactive dialogical model, could lead to the cessation of confrontation and condemnation and its attendant dual observance, and enhance the development of a Shona Christian theology of death and the dead which provides for relevant and sensitive pastoral care.
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Mtimbiri, Siza. "The impact of HIV/AIDS on infected and affected rural primary school children in Zimbabwe : children's perspectives : a case study." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285424.

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Although there has been increasing research on HIV/AIDS and children, albeit mostly outside the school environment, most research in the area tends to view 'children as objects' (Christensen and James, 1999) in the research process whereby the change in the child is what is being observed. This view lessens the role of the child and as such means that the results are inadequate - mostly the researcher's perspective is represented. In Zimbabwe, with an estimated 1.1 million AIDS orphans and 115,000 children under 14 living with HIV/AIDS, not much empirical research has been conducted in school settings where they spend most of their time; the complexities of infected and affected students' experiences within the school-home-community spheres are mostly inferred due to lack of empirical research. Using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System's Theory and the Capability Approach to adopt a holistic psychosocio-cultural lens, the research aims to understand the experiences of infected and affected students from their perspectives within their school, home and community environments. Added to observations, in-depth interviews based on data collected using photography, drawings, timelines, sociograms and student diaries were conducted with 65 boys and 27 girls aged 10 -13 years from a rural primary school during the months of August to December 2011. In-depth interviews were also conducted with 161 parents and caregivers. Also interviewed were 13 stakeholders comprising of a Senior Research Officer within the Ministry of Education, District Education Officer, 5 Teachers and their Principal, a District Councilor, the Chief, a village head, a local Baptist Minister and a research staff person from, FACT, a local NGO that works with AIDS orphans. Among children, findings point to dilapidating issues of stigma, abandonment, unaddressed emotional and physical needs; children relied on each other's advice more than that of teachers and caregivers. Among the adult community, the education authorities and community leaders who are custodians of their education, ignorance about infected and affected children is astounding. An ageing population of caregivers is barely able to deal with the complexities of infected children. Religion has a powerful negative influence on addressing HIV/AIDS issues. Teachers, citing taboo issues about sex and the fact that HIV/AIDS is not an exam at the school, refused to broach the subject. Education Officials at the time clearly pointed out that there has been no research nor any plans yet to address this population and their needs. Further research will need to be conducted for educational planning that will be most effective in implementing meaningful changes for this group and other rural primary school children.
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Dube, Elijah Elijah Ngoweni. "Getting married twice: the relationship between indigenous and Christian marriages among the Ndau of the Chimanimani area of Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23809.

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The thesis focuses on the Ndau people of Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Contact with Westerners brought significant changes to their marriage practices. South Africa General Mission (SAGM) missionaries required Ndau people to conduct church (“white”) weddings for their marriages to be recognised by the church. This has caused a problem whereby Ndau Christians marry traditionally/customarily and yet still have to conduct church weddings. The church has not rethought its position on the necessity for having this duplication of marriages. The thesis sought to develop an in-depth understanding of Ndau people’s perceptions and experiences on the connection between and the necessity for both marriages in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Data regarding Ndau people’s understanding of marriage practices was collected using in-depth semi-structured and focus group interviews. Following a qualitative research design, the study used the phenomenological approach to collect data and postcolonialism as the research paradigm. Using these, twenty individual and five focus group interviews were conducted. Seven themes emerged from the data. These covered marriage practices of the Ndau, the most preferred way of marriage, various reasons for having church weddings, perceived relationship between the two marriages, different views on the sufficiency of traditional marriages, thoughts on the expenses of church weddings, and how participants married and reasons thereof. The findings showed that Ndau Christians conduct church weddings for several reasons. These are because they:  want to celebrate their marriages  desire God’s blessings when they convert to Christianity. It is regarded as God’s biblical requirement  understand it as a church requirement/rule  get church teaching that encourage church weddings  need recognition and acceptance in the church as well as general social recognition  associate Christianity with Westernisation vi  regard it as a deterrent to unfaithfulness and polygyny  regard church weddings as having wider official recognition than traditional marriages and  want associated material advantages. The conclusion states that there is neither a theological nor a biblical basis for requiring Ndau Christians to have church weddings. Using a postcolonial hybrid approach, the thesis suggests a merging of the two marriages into one ceremony. More recommendations were given and the church was challenged to be more responsive to its people’s struggles.
Religious Studies and Arabic
D. Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)
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Dziva, Douglas. "A critical examination of patterns of research in the academic study of Shona traditional religion, with special reference to methodological considerations." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5931.

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This thesis is a critical examination of patterns of research in the academic study of Shona traditional religion, with special reference to methodological considerations. I analyse the methods and approaches used so far by prominent writers in the study of Zimbabwe's Shona traditional religion so that we may be able to develop better ways of researching it. I then discuss ways that ought to inform and direct the research methods that are most likely to yield adequate empirical studies of the Shona people. I analyse works of the "early writers", as well as those of Michael Gelfand, Gordon Chavunduka and Michael Bourdillon. Where relevant, I explore the connection between the researchers' religious, cultural, academic or professional "baggage" and how this relates to their research. Discussing methodological issues such as: the "insider-outsider" question, the "emic-etic" issue, value-judgment as well as the questions of reductionism, "subjectivity" and "objectivity" in scholarship, I examine these writers' attitudes to, and the ways they wrote about Shona traditional religion and cultural practices. I assess their approaches and research methods in relation to those from various disciplines such as history, phenomenology, theology, anthropology and participant observation. I analyse the extent to which these writers, for example, utilised the historical approach or presented insider perspectives in an endeavour to reach an adequate and thorough understanding of Shona religion and culture. In view of the fact that Shona traditional religion is a polyvalent and polymorphic community religion, I argue that no one approach and method can be said to be "the" only method so as to attain a comprehensive understanding of the meanings veiled in Shona religion and culture. Furthermore, given the nature of Shona traditional religion, it is essential for researchers to exploit as much of oral history as possible. Thus, researchers also need to learn the Shona language, live in the community for a long period of time, attend and observe every bit of Shona life so as to see, hear and understand how these phenomena fit together. It is suggested that methodological conversion and agnostic restraint need to be forged into a multi-disciplinary and poly-methodic science of religion in the quest of a research model to be used in order to attain a better understanding of Shona religion, culture and society.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1997.
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Shumbamhini, Mercy. "Storying widowhood in Shona culture." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1135.

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A group of four widows undertook this research journey with me. They reflected on their widowhood experiences. Narrative and participatory practices guided our conversations. Participatory, contextual, postmodern, liberational feminist theology, poststructuralism and the social construction theory of reality informed this work. Reflective and summarising letters after each group meeting played a central part in the research. The letters were structured to make visible the "taken-for-granted" which informed the widows about who and what they are. The alternative stories of preferred widowhood practices that emerged during and between sessions were centralised in the letters. Elements of transformation, hope and empowerment surfaced as counter stories to the culture of oppression, providing the scaffolding for re-storying their lives. The group formed Chiedza Widows Association in order to support other widows who are still marginalised.
Practical Theology
(M.Th - Specialisation Pastoral Therapy))
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Manley, Marcelle. "Soil and blood : Shona traditional region in late 20th century Zimbabwe." Diss., 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18115.

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This qualitative study focuses on two questions: a) Do present-day Shona still subscribe to the world-view of their ancestors? b) How does this world-view relate to that of the modern (Western) world? Interviews were conducted with government representatives, chiefs in Masvingo Province and people in all walks of life. Virtually all interviewees, even when participating in the "modern" sector (including Christianity), still subscribe to the traditional system. Government, however, has adopted the model of the pre-Independence government, with some concessions to tradition. The traditional world-view (emphasising its key symbols, blood and soil) and the history of the two dominant tribes in Masvingo Province are outlined. A case study of a current chieftaincy dispute illustrates the dilemma. Conclusion: searching dialogue between the two belief systems is needed to resolve the potentially creative ambivalence. Some key issues are suggested as starting points for such dialogue.
M.A. (Religious Studies)
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Hwata, Benny. "Christianity under indigenous leadership in Zimbabwe : whither the church's inculturation of the Shona views on death and afterlife." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27303.

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Early Christian missionaries alienated Shona people from their culture and traditional religion. Essential elements of Shona religion were rejected because they were thought to be entertaining paganism, fetishism and idolatry. More than a century of Christianity in Zimbabwe has passed and some Shona still hold on tenaciously to their ancestral religion. The missionaries did not understand Shona language and may have been ignorant of the significance of the Shona religion to the Shona people. However, with the transfer of power from colonial masters to black rule, one would have expected parallel changes concerning creative integration of indigenous cultural values with the Gospel. But today, forty years after independence, not a single Church denomination in Zimbabwe (Mainline Churches, Evangelical Churches and Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches) seems to have made any ‘meaningful adaption’ of the Shona views on death and afterlife, in the light of the Bible, and in particular, the Gospel. Several elements in Shona traditional beliefs on death and afterlife have been proposed for inculturation. In spite of the proposals put forward by various scholars, even the indigenous Church leaders in Zimbabwe seem to have failed to fully adapt the Shona views into the Christian Gospel message, despite the fact that they fully understand and appreciate the Shona culture and values. A literature review will help to extract information from current and past studies underlying this field. The principles followed on comprehending and solving problems, and the methods and methodology employed in the study, will be made explicit. A detailed examination of the Shona views on death and afterlife which the Zimbabwean Church is expected to possibly incorporate into their worship, and the precepts on the eschatological perspective of Christianity on death, resurrection and afterlife, will be conducted. Definition and analysis of the terms ‘dialogue’ and ‘inculturation’, and the progress achieved on dialogue and inculturation, by the Church in Zimbabwe, will follow. The challenges confronting the Church in Zimbabwe, and the Shona Christians, will be investigated, while theological arguments will be employed to identify gaps in knowledge in the previous literature. The study will suggest possible proposals on the way forward.
Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
PhD. (Systematic Theology)
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Books on the topic "Ndau religion/Shona religion"

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Bourdillon, M. F. C. The Shona peoples: An ethnography of the contemporary Shona, with special reference to their religion. 3rd ed. Gweru: Mambo Press, 1987.

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Makwasha, Gift M. The repression, resistance, and revival of the ancestor cult in the Shona churches of Zimbabwe: A study of the persistence of a traditional religious belief. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Mwandayi, Canisius. Death and after-life rituals in the eyes of the Shona: Dialogue with Shona customs in the quest for authentic inculturation. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2011.

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Shona sentential names: A brief overview. Mankon, Bamenda [Cameroon]: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2013.

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The repression, resistance, and revival of the ancestor cult in the Shona churches of Zimbabwe: A study of the persistence of a traditional religious belief. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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On ubuntu and retributive punishment in Korekore-Nyombwe culture: Emerging ethical perspectives. Harare, Zimbabwe: Best Practices Books, 2012.

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Daneel, M. L. African earthkeepers. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1999.

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Daneel, M. L. African earthkeepers. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1998.

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African earthkeepers: Wholistic interfaith mission. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 2001.

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Mucherera, Tapiwa N. Pastoral Care from a Third World Perspective: A Pastoral Theology of Care for the Urban Contemporary Shona in Zimbabwe (Research in Religion and Family, Black Perspectives). Peter Lang Publishing, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ndau religion/Shona religion"

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Chitando, Ezra. "Re-opening the Canon: The Transformation of Shona Indigenous Religion in the Face of HIV and AIDS in Rural Zimbabwe." In Alternative Voices, 195–210. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666540172.195.

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Taringa, Nisbert T., and Macloud Sipeyiye. "Religious Pluralism and the Interaction between Pentecostal Christianity and African Traditional Religions: A Case Study of ZAOGA and Shona Traditional Religion." In Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe, 199–210. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78565-3_14.

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Tatira, Liveson. "Shona Proverbs and the Concept of Development." In Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 1, 233–44. Mzuni Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx0785f.17.

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Humbe, Bernard Pindukai. "Divisi witchcraft in contemporary Zimbabwe: Contest between two legal systems as incubator of social tensions among the Shona people." In Religion, Law and Security in Africa, 269–82. SUN MeDIA, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928314431/18.

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Mwase, Isaac M. T. "Kuona, An African Perspective on Religions." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 161–65. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199836631.

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Kuona is a Shona (one of Zimbabwe’s major languages) verb meaning "to see." In poetic constructions, it is often used as an ocular metaphor meaning insight or understanding. This ocular metaphor can be used to describe Mugambi’s assessment of the exclusivistic claims one often encounters in the Abrahamic religions. Such claims often arise from a strongly held belief that the adherent is one of God’s chosen. Mugambi has emerged as one of the most articulate philosophical theologians in the African continent. His reflections, ubiquitous in classrooms on the continent, deserve a much broader audience. My paper seeks to introduce Mugambi’s perspective on religion. Part of Mugambi’s project has been to make an assessment of this notion of chosenness in the Abrahamic religions. He does so particularly with reference to the relationship between Christianity and the African religious heritage.
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