Editors:
- Provides a "one-stop shop" for insights into Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe
- Features deeply informed writing packed with deep historical, theological, and sociological analysis
- Examines socio-political and economic factors as well as theoretical and methodological implications
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History
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Front Matter
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Doctrine
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Front Matter
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Socio-Political and Economic Relevance
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About this book
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.Keywords
- Pentecostalism
- Christianity in Zimbabwe
- Gospel of Prosperity
- Socio-politics
- Biblical interpretation
- Health and Well Being
- African Initiated Churches (AICs)
- Zimbabwean Politics
- Religious Pluralism
- History of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe
- Case of African Initiated Churches as Pentecostals
- Pentecostalism and Charismatism in Zimbabwe
- Pentecostal Gospel of Prosperity in Zimbabwe
- role of Pentecostalism in women empowerment
- Pentecostal Christianity and Religious Pluralism
- Case study of ZAOGA and Shona Traditional Religion
- Pentecostal Kairos
- religion and society
Reviews
“Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe is a most useful resource to understand the particular theological and ecclesiological matrix of a rapidly expanding faith. … This work is an enrichment to the field of African Pentecostalism and World Christianity, as it represents a hopeful promise of what is to come from indigenous African theologians and historians in the wake of globalization.” (Lucinda Yang, Pneuma, Vol. 41, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Lovemore Togarasei
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe
Editors: Lovemore Togarasei
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78565-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78564-6Published: 25 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08732-6Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78565-3Published: 13 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 234
Topics: Religion and Society, Sociology of Culture, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism