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Journal articles on the topic "Zimbabwe – Religion"

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Machoko, Collis Garikai. "Religion and Interconnection With Zimbabwe." Journal of Black Studies 44, no. 5 (June 19, 2013): 472–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934713492174.

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Kalu, Ogbu. "Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe." Pneuma 30, no. 2 (2008): 337–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007408x346564.

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Vengeyi, Obvious. "Mapositori Churches and Politics in Zimbabwe: Political Dramas to Win the Support of Mapositori Churches." Exchange 40, no. 4 (2011): 351–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254311x600753.

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AbstractThis article confirms the validity of the well known observation by scholars regarding the intrinsic interconnectedness of religion and politics in Africa. This truism is affirmed by demonstrating how Zimbabwe’s main political parties, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (zanu-pf) and Movement for Democratic Change (mdc), contrary to their public statements appeal to religious leaders and groups for political survival. Special focus is on ‘white garment churches’ otherwise commonly known as Mapositori the biggest brand of African Initiated Churches. As such, mainline churches and traditional chiefs are considered in passing especially in order to understand the present state of affairs where Mapositori rule the roost in political matters of Zimbabwe.
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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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van Klinken, Adriaan. "Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe: Health and Well-Being." Exchange 37, no. 3 (2008): 380–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254308x311938.

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Young, Steven. "Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe: Health and Well-Being." Journal of Religion in Africa 38, no. 3 (2008): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006608x323540.

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Owen Mhango, Mtendeweka. "The Constitutional Protection of Minority Religious Rights in Malawi: The Case of Rastafari Students." Journal of African Law 52, no. 2 (September 18, 2008): 218–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855308000107.

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AbstractIn Malawi, Rastafari students are prevented from attending public schools on account of their dreadlocks. This article seeks to analyse a framework for assessing whether Rastafari qualifies as a religion under section 33 of the Constitution of Malawi. The article argues that Rastafari is a recognized religion and that its sincere adherents should have full protection under the Constitution of Malawi, as do members of other religious groups. The article discusses potential problems for Rastafari litigants in Malawi and proposes some solutions. It introduces a three prong balancing test, which has been applied in particular cases in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and makes recommendations about future interpretation of the Constitution of Malawi using this test. It examines the current interpretation of the freedom of religion in Malawi and concludes with an argument for Malawi to follow the approach taken in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Sayi, Takudzwa S., and Amson Sibanda. "Correlates of Child Marriage in Zimbabwe." Journal of Family Issues 39, no. 8 (January 31, 2018): 2366–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x18755198.

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In countries where child marriage remains widespread, concerted efforts are underway to eliminate it, but overall progress remains uneven and slow. One in three Zimbabwean girls marries by age 18. To inform the country’s efforts to reduce child marriage, data from 5,542 women aged 20 to 24 years in the 2005-2006, 2010-2011, and 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys are used to examine individual-, household-, and cluster-level correlates. Cumulative incidence functions first document changes over time, and multilevel models are used to explore correlates. Although prevalence is high, younger cohorts were less likely to marry young. A woman’s education, wealth quintile, religion, and provincial residence correlated with marrying as a child. Cluster-level female schooling, number of children ever born, and proportions using contraceptives were also correlated with child marriage. Efforts should promote socioeconomic well-being and target cultural practices promoting the practice. Interventions targeting at-risk women should complement universal approaches to combating child marriage.
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Kurebwa, Jeffrey, and Nyasha Yvonne Kurebwa. "Child Marriages in Rural Zimbabwe." International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change 5, no. 1 (January 2018): 40–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcesc.2018010103.

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The objectives of this article was to understand the causes, effects and measures to reduce child marriages in rural Zimbabwe. Child marriages have serious social, economic, health and political implications on young girls and their communities. Young girls are also robbed of their locally and internationally recognised rights. Ending child marriages demands a multi-sectoral approach where all actors, such as parents, national governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local culture, and religion are involved. This article relies on qualitative methodology to gather data. Purposive sampling and snow ball sampling methods were used to identify key informants and women who were victims of child marriages. Stakeholders involved in children's rights should provide reproductive health and education services to local communities in order to end child marriages.
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Maxwell, David. "The Durawall of Faith: Pentecostal Spirituality in Neo-Liberal Zimbabwe." Journal of Religion in Africa 35, no. 1 (2005): 4–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570066052995825.

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AbstractThis paper considers the nature of Pentecostal spirituality in contemporary Zimbabwe, taking as its case study Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA), one of the continent's largest and most vital Pentecostal movements. The analysis centres upon a lexicon of key words, phrases and narratives used in song, preaching, testimony and prayer. For example, there is a preponderance of images of security, including the 'durawall', the protective concrete fencing surrounding a factory or a suburban home. The paper demonstrates how Pentecostalism, as quintessential popular religion, is able both to satisfy deep existential passions and to aid those struggling for survival in the specific social conditions of neo-liberal Zimbabwe. While Pentecostalism helps create an acquisitive, flexible person better suited to coping with neo-liberalism's economic agenda, it rejects the neo-liberal cultural project. Instead Pentecostal communities provide believers with security in the face of state retrenchment, the capriciousness of global capitalism and growing levels of violence and crime. Pentecostal religion also offers hope to those suffering from a sense of personal abjection created by the shattered hopes of independence and the elusive promise of modernity.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Zimbabwe – Religion"

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Matenga, Edward. "The Soapstone Birds of Great Zimbabwe : Archaeological Heritage, Religion and Politics in Postcolonial Zimbabwe and the Return of Cultural Property." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160193.

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At least eight soapstone carvings of birds furnished a shrine, Great Zimbabwe, in the 19th century. This large stonewalled settlement, once a political and urban centre, had been much reduced for four centuries, although the shrine continued to operate as local traditions dictated. The Zimbabwe Birds were handed down from a past that has only been partially illuminated by archaeological inquiry and ethnography, as has the site as such. This thesis publishes the first detailed catalogue of the Birds and attempts to reconstruct their provenance at the site based on the earliest written accounts. A modern history of the Birds unfolds when the European settlers removed them from the site in dubious transactions, claiming them as rewards of imperial conquest. As the most treasured objects from Great Zimbabwe, the fate of the Birds has been intertwined with that of the site in a matrix of contested meanings and ownership. This thesis explores how the meanings of cultural objects have a tendency to shift and to be ephemeral, demonstrating the ability of those in power to appropriate and determine such meanings. In turn, this has a bearing on ownership claims, and gives rise to an “authorized heritage discourse” syndrome.   The forced migrations of the Zimbabwe Birds within the African continent and to Europe and their subsequent return to their homeland decades later are characterised by melodramatic episodes of manoeuvring by traders, politicians and theologians, and of the return of stolen property cloaked as an amicable barter deal, or a return extolled as an act of generosity. International doctrines that urge the return of cultural property are influenced by Western hegemonic ideologies. Natural justice is perverted, as stolen property acquires a (superior) significance in its new context, which merits the extinction of the original provenance. This leaves “generosity” and goodwill as the promises of the future, holding the fate of one Zimbabwe Bird still kept in exile in South Africa.
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Nyanungo, Martha. "Tensions and conflicts between formal and traditional sex education in Africa-sub-Sahara." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23609.

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Esta dissertação visa estudar a influência que a educação sócio-cultural e religiosa exercem na educação sexual formal em escolas no Zimbabwe. Para a investigação, foi levantada a seguinte questão: "A educação sexual formal ministrada em escolas está a ser sublevada pela educação sexual adquirida através de normas socioculturais, religiosas das famílias Africanas?” Entretanto, se a educação sexual não é Afro-centrada e culturalmente relevante a nível do conteúdo, ela não pode ser efetiva e as mulheres jovens continuarão expostas aos maiores desafios sexuais de hoje. Ao responder a esta e outras questões da pesquisa, achámos o método qualitativo o mais apropriado para a recolha de dados culturalmente específicos e contextualmente ricos, pois, é esse o objetivo deste estudo. Através de entrevistas etnográficas, a intenção foi a de gravar vozes de jovens mulheres Shonas que, representam todo mosaico sócio-étnico do país. Isso permitiu-me obter informações consistentes e coerentes de como a sexualidade é definida e percebida entre os Shonas, e como a referida perceção se entrelaça com a instrução formal religiosa sobre a sexualidade. Outros instrumentos de recolha de informação para o nosso estudo incluíram análise minuciosa de livros escolares e de documentos do Ministério da Educação, Desporto e Cultura do Zimbabwe. Entre vários resultados curiosos produzidos pela pesquisa, o de maior realce revela que a educação sexual formal ministrada nas escolas no Zimbabwe não incorpora conteúdos suficientemente relevantes para os adolescentes sexualmente ativos. A inadequação baseia-se na abordagem não realista e errônea da abstinência como o método e resolução insuperável para os dilemas da sexualidade. Como desvantagem, a cultura e a religião também são vistas como desafios para a educação sexual efetiva nas escolas. Com base nesses resultados, o nosso estudo conclui com recomendações que devem ser levadas em consideração ao se elaborar um currículo de educação integral mais eficaz e operacional sobre educação sexual; ABSTRACT: Tensions and conflicts between formal and traditional sex education in Africa sub-Sahara This dissertation aims to investigate the interplay between the socio-religio-cultural aspects and formal sex education in schools in Zimbabwe. Because young women fall victim to most of the traditional, religio-cultural sexuality adversities, the research focuses on young Shona women. The study interrogates whether the formal sex education being taught in schools faces setbacks from sex education being instructed through African family socio-cultural and religious norms. Qualitative methodology was found to be the most appropriate for the production of culturally specific and contextually rich data that the research is aimed at. Collection of data was achieved through document analysis participant observation and ethnographic interviews. Of the many intriguing findings of this research, a major finding is that curricula is detached from overarching philosophical worldviews, cultural traditions, and the general actualities of sexually active teenagers. Its inadequacy is based on the unrealistic and erroneous approach to abstinence as the unsurpassable resolution to sexuality dilemmas. The study evidences that the deep-rootedness of some traditional practices, mythologies, and taboos associated with sexuality as well as the tenacity of some forms of traditional modes of sexuality education continue to exert a powerful influence on formal sexuality education in schools. The findings further reveals that the prescriptive and fear-based teaching methods do not foster enough critical thinking to empower students to face sexuality and reproductive health challenges. This viewpoint continues to play a significant role in shaping attitudes, beliefs, and values in relation to sexuality even in contemporary times. Based on these findings, the study con-cludes with recommendations for designers of sexuality education curricula to consider the convergent and divergent aspects and draw from strengths of the co-existing heritages in order to build an integrated sexuality education pedagogy that is culturally relevant for the young women in Zimbabwe.
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Matenda, Job. "The cultural and religious significance of indigenous vegetables: A case study of the Chionekano-ward of the Zvishavane-district in Zimbabwe." University of the Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6934.

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This study is situated in the context of multidisciplinary discourse on the pervasive problem of food insecurity in the southern African context. More specifically, it is situated in the context of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, located at the University of the Western Cape and its project on “Food Ethics and Values” (with Prof Ernst Conradie as principal investigator). It will contribute to discourse on food security from the perspective of the discipline of religious studies and more specifically African Traditional Religion (ATR) and the indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) associated with that. The consumption of food naturally plays a significant role in African Traditional Religion – as is evident from various taboos on food consumption, rituals with prescriptions on food, calendar-based festivities, but also from daily life in rural villages. In reflecting on food in such rural villages, the focus is often on the consumption of meat (chicken, goats, cattle, but also rodents and other wildlife) and of grains like maize. However, vegetables traditionally also formed part of a family’s daily diet. In pre-colonial times, such vegetables were not necessarily cultivated since some indigenous vegetables were harvested based on indigenous knowledge available amongst village elders and traditional healers. The Chionekano-ward includes some 42 villages with an estimated population of around 1020 persons. Through a process of snowball sampling, semi-structured interviews were conducted with village elders and traditional healers who have knowledge of such indigenous vegetables. Where appropriate interviews were followed up with focus groups discussions in particular villages. This study investigated the cultural and religious connotations attached to specified indigenous vegetable types in the Chionekano-ward of the Zvishavane-district in Zimbabwe. This study has identified fifteen edible indigenous vegetables. Only eleven indigenous vegetables were among the commonly used. These were classified into three groups. Firstly, there are indigenous vegetables found in the farming lands as weeds. These are Nyovhi/ Spider plant/ Cleome gynandra, Mbuya Mbuya/ Thorny pigweed/ Amaranthus spinosus, Derere/ Wild jute/ Corchorus tridens, Tsine/ Muhlabangubo/ Black jack/ Bidens spinosa, Muchacha/ Wild gherkin/ Cucumis anguria. Secondly there were Indigenous vegetables that use leaves as by-products namely, Muboora/Pumpkin squash/ Cucurbita maxima, Munyemba/ Cowpea leaves/ Vigna unguilata. Thirdly there were commonly used Wild indigenous vegetables found in riverbanks, forests and mountains namely Chirevereve, mubvunzandadya, Fat hen/ Chenopodium album and Nhuri. There were religious and cultural connotations attached to the use of these indigenous vegetables. The study found that there are common shared beliefs on the harvesting, cooking and consumption of these vegetables. These commonly shared beliefs and predominant perceptions on the consumption of indigenous vegetables were mainly shaped by the cultural and traditional religious beliefs systems shared by all the participants. Although the study was of a descriptive nature, it advocated for the preservation of such indigenous knowledge in order to promote avenues towards food security where commercial agriculture may be unable to ensure an equitable distribution of food.
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Shreve, Adam Terrence. "Framing the sacred : an analysis of religious films in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22006.

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This is a study of the production, content, distribution, and reception of different religious films in Zimbabwe, with an emphasis on the audience’s initial reception of the films. Informants’ self-identified religious beliefs and their reception of these selected films are analyzed primarily by using qualitative methods to understand better the interplay between film and religion in Zimbabwe. The films studied in this research are The Jesus Film (1979) created by Campus Crusade for Christ and indigenous, short Jesus films created locally in Zimbabwe in 2012. In order to answer the central research questions of this study, two main approaches are employed: the first is a holistic approach to the analysis of these films. The primary question within this approach is: in what ways do the production, content, and distribution of The Jesus Film and indigenous, short Jesus films affect the reception of the films among informants in Zimbabwe today? The second approach specifically addresses the interchange between the audience members’ self-identified religious beliefs and their reception of the films. There are two central research questions within this approach. First, in what ways may pre-existing perceptions of Jesus shape informants’ responses to and interpretations of Jesus as he is portrayed in The Jesus Film and in indigenous, short Jesus films in Zimbabwe today? Secondly, how might the viewing of these films affect those perceptions of Jesus? Based upon the careful analysis of the original data that emerges from the field work of this research, the conclusion provides a series of answers to these questions, revealing new insights into the interplay of film and religion in Zimbabwe.
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Maminimini, Helen Tendayi. "Maturity and its assessment for admission into religious life with particular reference to institutes in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9402.

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Religious profession, by which certain Catholics publicly profess the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience according to ecclesial law, is a juridic act. Consequently, professed members assume certain obligations and rights in the Church. The serious nature of the obligations of religious profession, obliges superiors of religious institutes to be vigilant in admitting into their institutes only those candidates who meet certain requirements. Canon 642 specifies some of these requirements. These are, the required age, health, suitable disposition and sufficient maturity to embrace the proper life of an institute. While it recommends the use of experts in determining the presence of these qualities, if necessary, the canon, also cautions superiors to respect individual privacy (c. 220) in the process. Apart from age which is easy to ascertain, each of the other listed requirements is so abstract, broad and difficult to define that the deliberate choice was made to simply focus our study on "sufficient maturity." The thesis attempts to define religious life and maturity and also explores methods of assessing the maturity required for admission in the novitiate of an institute. Even then, although maturity is mentioned several times in the Code, it is nowhere defined in clear terms seemingly because the law lacks the language and the tools to elaborate on its complex nature. As a result, an analytical inter-dialogue between theology, spirituality, canon law and psychology is used to bridge the gap between the legal requirements and the psychological concepts. The first chapter of the thesis presents a brief description of the essential elements of religious life, based on magisterial documents since the Second Vatican Council. It also defines personal maturity in its several aspects primarily from a psychological point of view. In order to reveal the relationship between the obligations of religious life and the personal maturity that is required for the life in its ideal state, chapter two examines in detail the role maturity plays in living out the three vows, common life and prayer life. In chapter three, the thesis analyses the methods currently used to assess the maturity of candidates admitted into religious life. The two main methods of psychological assessment identified in this study are psychological testing and behavioural assessment. Necessary measures to guard against unlawful violation of individual privacy of candidates during assessment are also discussed. The content of chapter four is centred on the applicability or suitability of the conclusions of our study to religious life in Zimbabwe.
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Kraybill, Ronald Sherer. "An Anabaptist paradigm for conflict transformation : critical reflections on peacemaking in Zimbabwe." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16126.

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This thesis outlines a proposal from an explicitly religious standpoint of the key dimensions of peacebuilding, focusing particularly on mediation and facilitation as a primary task. What is the value of such a study? My initial responses in the paragraphs which follow are made at the broadest possible level: the desperate need for effective peacebuilders in a world torn by violence and the potential for religiously-based peacebuilders to fill that need. I then support this response by examining other reasons for the study: the current inadequacy of religious response to conflicts, the danger of manipulation of religious leadership by other actors, and potential for the insights of religiously-based actors to contribute to the over-all practice of peacebuilding and diplomacy. In addressing the latter question I outline my own understanding of the meaning of "religion", an understanding whose impact on the broad question of peacebuilding I explore throughout the chapters which follow.
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Mukangara, Martha. "Evangelism as a local church outreach ministry to women and children affected with HIV and AIDS at Chikanga UMC in Zimbabwe, Africa." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/334.

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Of the many challenges that Zimbabwe is facing, the HIV and AIDS pandemic ranks most threatening. This project draws attention and focuses on set-ups probing into the nature of the approaches to combat the pandemic. Given the issues surrounding the spread of the virus, including, for example, stigmatization/discrimination, sexuality, models of transmission, cultural beliefs and practices, trauma, health-care services, aid organizations as well as governance issues. People raise questions that cut across the societal belief terrains on the one hand, and scientific/technological advancements on the other. This project explores how to empower women and children with HIV and AIDS and proposes eight healthy practices and a year- program outline for in- depth understanding and assimilation of caring awareness designed for children in Sunday school, youth in Bible Study, and adults in women’s/men’s fellowship groups. This project comprises of four chapters and uses library research, including reviews of published studies, books and articles written from the perspective of women affected with HIV and AIDS and caring for AIDS patients. The first chapter introduces and delineates the nature and scope of the project. The second chapter provides the overview of the history of Zimbabwe, describes the current state of women and children and causes of HIV and AIDS, and transformation through evangelism model in relationship with Atlanta Interfaith AIDS Network program (AlAN). The third chapter highlights the positive and negative role of religion in Zimbabwe, definition of HIV and AIDS in the African tradition, and negative role of Christians in Zimbabwe. The fourth chapter identifies theology of reconstruction and concept of “Jesus the only way to salvation.” The fifth chapter addresses the ministry title, which is Pastoral Leadership, Theology, Healthy Congregations and Community, and liberating people from different problems. The sixth chapter offers the outline of the project. It involves the primary settin~ secondary setting, and producing a complete dissertation of the total project. The seventh chapter sums up the necessity of healthy congregation in the 21S1 century, and needs of transformation in the nature of HIV and AIDS. The eighth chapters are the bibliographical References.
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Nartey, Victor Narteye. "Intervention and assistance to widows and orphans Impacted by HIV/AIDS: focusing on inheritance under the Customary processes, in the interfaith communities of Zimbabwe." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2007. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/329.

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The purpose of this project was to present a wholistic approach that would serve to empower the widows and orphans in the interfaith communities in City United Methodist Church in Harare, the Uniting Presbyterian Churches of Mabvuko and Mbare, and the African Apostolic Church of Johane Maranke in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, who have been impacted by HIV!AIDS. This project, denominated as “Resurrection Ministry” by the writer, focused on iaheritance as recognized under the customary processes in Zimbabwe, as one of the resources that can be utilized to empower the widows and orphans. Forty (40) women comprised Group A and twenty (20) youths, between the ages of twelve (12) and nineteen (19), represented Group B. Group A participated in a tn-dimensional strategy that consisted of questionnaires, group sessions/workshops and experiential activities. The group sessions/workshops operated on the principles of informed pedagogy whose aim is to convey information to the widows that will assist them in knowing how to acquire and manage the estates of their deceased spouses. Retired judiciaries educated the participants on easy-to-understand versions of the inheritance laws as well as the customary processes concerning beneficiaries of estates. The commonality that presented in these endeavors is how to take advantage of the existing customary and judicial resources that would accord the widows and orphans the opportunities to return and re-assert themselves as beloved and contributing members of the community. The youth group was divided into two groups: one group for girls and the other group for boys. Senior women from the interfaith communities trained adolescent girls in the following areas: responsible management of their individual lives, personal hygiene. child development, independence and continuing/completing educational endeavors. These areas of emphasis provided much needed information to adolescent girls who assume the mothering tasks of their younger siblings. In a similar manner, men of integrity in the various churches were appointed as mentors for the young boys. The men encouraged the boys in the Christian faith in weekly sessions. Each session integrated orthodoxy with orthopraxy. The mentors accompanied and transported the young men to sporting events and visitations to needy persons. These opportunities engendered a role-model system for the youth and foster male-to-male relationships of positivism between the senior men and the young men. The project proceeded from a fundamental hypothesis that surmised that the customary inheritance processes in the Zimbabwean culture can be dynamically employed to empower widows and orphans who have been adversely affected by HIV/AIDS in ways that allow them to experience dignity and worth in the community. All of the above-mentioned activities in the Resurrection Ministry project focused on instilling self-worth. confidence and a sense of’ belonging in the participants. The model of ministry documented in the project worked to provide the support. education, inlbrmation and assistance needed to assist widows and orphans in their navigation of their lives after the death of the principal breadwinners in the family.
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Mabvurira, Vincent. "Influence of African Traditional Religion and spirituality in understanding chronic illnesses and its implications for social work practice:a case of Chiweshe Communal lands in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1770.

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Pattison, David. "From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe via Oxford and London : a study of the career of Dambudzo Marechera." Thesis, University of Hull, 1998. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3859.

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[From the introduction] : In my first chapter I will offer a review of Marechera's reputation and the critical reception given to his work, both during his life and since his death. In Chapter Two I Will outline the major theoretical issues raised by Marechera's work: Art versus psychological catharsis; the artist-as-communal-spokesman versus the artist-as-Romantic-individualist; nationalism versus literary universalism. Chapters Three, Four, Five and Six will then consider in sequence, the work produced in Oxford, in London and in Harare, tracing the writer's physical and psychological deterioration through his evolving prose style. Each of these chapters will also focus on a major relevant critical issue. Thus Chapter Three will examine The House of Hunger, written following Marechera's arrival in Oxford, in the context of 'culture clash', 'the African heritage' and Postcolonialism which so preoccupied its original reviewers. Chapter Four will examine Black Sunlight and The Black Insider, written while the author was destitute in London, in terms of Jung's 'neurosis or art' debate. Chapter Five will examine Mindblast and Chapter Six will examine Scrapiron Blues, both containing material written after Marecheras' return to Harare, making reference to the historical and socio-political context of post-colonial Zimbabwe and to the writer's unsuccessful attempts to establish a role with the nation builders. I will conclude in Chapter Seven by discussing Marechera's place within the Zimbabwean literary canon, the current relevance and influence of his work and the implications this holds for the future of Zimbabwean writing.
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Books on the topic "Zimbabwe – Religion"

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Prayers and players: Religion and politics in Zimbabwe. Harare, Zimbabwe: Sapes Books, 2013.

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Shoka, Tabona. Karanga indigenous religion in Zimbabwe: Health and well-being. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007.

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Rational ancestors: Scientific rationality and African indigenous religions : including field descriptions of Zimbabwean myths and rituals by University of Zimbabwe students. Cardiff: Cardiff Academic Press, 1998.

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Tshuma, D. Zimbabwe is burning: God, put out the fire. Harare: D. Tshuma, 2009.

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Zimbabwe is burning: God, put out the fire. Harare: D. Tshuma, 2009.

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Schoormann, Matthias. Sozialer und religiöser Wandel in Africa: Die Tonga in Zimbabwe. Münster: Lit, 2005.

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Maguranyanga, Brian. Apostolic religion, health, and utilization of maternal and child health services in Zimbabwe. [Harare]: UNICEF, 2011.

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Karanga mythology: An analysis of the consciousness of the Karanga in Zimbabwe. Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 1989.

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Christians and chiefs in Zimbabwe: A social history of the Hwesa people. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1999.

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Hansson, Gurli. African women and religion: Religious rites and beliefs in connection with childbirth in Mberengwa District, Zimbabwe. Uppsala, Sweden: International Child Health Unit, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Uppsala, 1990.

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Tarusarira, Joram, and Admire Mare. "Religious peacebuilding in Zimbabwe." In The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism, 323–36. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge handbooks in religion: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203731420-27.

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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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Madanhi, Alfred. "Indigenous knowledge systems, Ubuntu/Hunhu and the preservation of ecosystems in Zimbabwe." In Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa, 67–81. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies in religion: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003017080-6.

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Nhamo, Definate, and Mercy Murire. "Towards a Better Understanding of HIV Prevention Stigma, Religion and Health in Zimbabwe." In Health Communication and Disease in Africa, 101–19. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2546-6_5.

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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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Chitando, Ezra. "The Religions of Zimbabwe in their Plurality." In Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe, 15–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78565-3_2.

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Sibanda, Fortune. "Female Leadership in Mudzimu Unoera Sect of Guruve, Zimbabwe." In Female Leaders in New Religious Movements, 209–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61527-1_11.

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Taru, Josiah. "Mobile Apps and Religious Processes Among Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians in Zimbabwe." In Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps, 153–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26376-8_8.

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Mujinga, Martin. "Technologization of Religion: The Unstoppable Revolution in the Zimbabwean Mainline Churches." In African Values, Ethics, and Technology, 263–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70550-3_16.

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Dube, Charles. "Religion and (Re)negotiation of Belonging among Zimbabwean Migrant Youths in South Africa." In Identities, Youth and Belonging, 51–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96113-2_4.

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