Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe / Lovemore Togarasei, editor.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostalism--Zimbabwe.

Pentecostalism.

Religious life.

Zimbabwe--Religious life.

Zimbabwe.

Physical Description:

234 pages; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Springer International, 2018.

Summary:

Back cover: This edited book offers an engaging portrait into a vital, religious movement inside this southern Africa country. It tells the story of a community of faith that is often overlooked in the region. The authors include leading scholars of religion, theology, and politics from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The insights they present will help readers understand the place of Pentecostal Christianity in this land of many religions. The chapters detail a history of the movement from its inception to the present. Chapters focus on specific Pentecostal churches, general doctrine of the movement, and the movement's contribution to the country. The writing is deeply informed and features deep historical, theological, and sociological analysis throughout. Readers will also learn about the socio-political and economic relevance of the faith in Zimbabwe as well as the theoretical and methodological implications raised by the Pentecostalisation of society. The volume will serve as a resource book both for teaching and for those doing research on various aspects of the Zimbabwean society past, present, and future. It will be a good resource for those in schools and university and college departments of religious studies, theology, history, politics, sociology, social anthropology, and related studies. Over and above academic and research readers, the book will also be very useful to government policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and civic societies who have the Church as an important stakeholder.

Contents:

Part I: History. The religions of Zimbabwe in their plurality / Ezra Chitando

History and characteristics of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe / Lovemore Togarasei

The primacy of the Spirit: the case of African initiated churches as Pentecostals / Masiiwa Ragies Gunda and Vengeyi Obvious

Pentecostalism and Charismatism in the Roman Catholic Church's Archdiocese of Harare in Zimbabwe: a critical analysis / Joachin Kwaramba.

Part II: Doctrine. Health and wealth in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: The case of the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) / Kudzai Biri

"All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues" (Acts 2:4): Glossolalia as a defining characteristic of Zimbabwean Pentecostalism / Francis Machingura

The Pentacostal gospel of prosperity and the divisive nature of mega-church superstar men of God (prophets) in Zimbabwe / Masiiwa Ragies Gunda

The Old Testament as a source book for the Pentacostal gospel of prosperity / Masiiwa Ragies Gunda and Lovemore Togarasei.

Part III: Socio-political and economic relevance. Pastors, preachers, and wives: A critical reflection on the role of Pentacostalism in women empowerment in Zimbabwe / Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga

Health and well-being in Zimbabwe's Pentacostal churches / Tinoonga Shanduka and Lovemore Togarasei

Pentecostal churches: money making machines of purveyors of socio-economic growth? / Lovemore Togarasei and Kudzai Biri

Pentecostal churches and Zimbabwean politics: Some reflections / Mervis Zungura and Eve Zvichanzi Nyemba.

Part IV: Theoretical and methodological issues. Religious pluralism and the interaction between Pentecostal Christianity and African traditional religions: a case study of ZAOGA and Shona traditional religion / Nisbert T. Taringa and Macloud Sipeyiye

Biblical interpretation in Pentecostal Christianity / Lovemore Togarasei

The Pentecostal Kairos: Methodological and theoretical implications / Musa W. Dube.

ISBN:

3319785648

9783319785646

OCLC:

1027189560