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Title:'Down with the Devil, Forward with Christ!': A Study of the Interface between Religious and Political Discourses in Zimbabwe
Author:Chitando, EzraISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332)
Volume:6
Issue:1
Pages:1-16
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Subjects:Church and State
Politics and Government
Religion and Witchcraft
religion
political science
Christianity
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487670
Abstract:Against the background of the political and religious climate in Zimbabwe from the late 1990s to early 2002, the author considers Church-State relations and explores the creative interaction between political and religious discourses by analysing slogans, songs, pronouncements and myths employed by actors in the two arenas. He argues that there has been a dynamic interchange and free borrowing of phrases, catchwords and ideologies between the religious and the political arena. Moreover, as the social, political and economic climate worsened in Zimbabwe, religious and political rhetoric became pronounced. Religion and politics influenced each other in ways that call for a rethinking of the traditional, often deterministic, formulations. Bibliogr., sum.
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