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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, Ezra |
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. |