Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe

Ezra Chitando is Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe and Theology Consultant on HIV and AIDS for the World Council of Churches. Lovemore Togarasei is Professor of Religious Studies at Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe.Joram Tarusarira is Assistant Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

• List of Contributors Introduction: Inventing the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe: The Religious Dimension, Ezra Chitando (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe) and Joram Tarusarira (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)1. Built by God and the Ancestors? Interrogating the Spiritual and Philosophical Foundations of the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe, Ezra Chitando and Obert B. Mlambo (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)2. The “God is in it”: The Rhetorical Dimension of Nelson Chamisa’s Political Discourse, Josephat Mutangadura (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa)3. "The Voice of the People is the Voice of God”: Reviewing the Theological Foundations of the New Dispensation in Zimbabwe, Vengesai Chimininge (Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe)4. “I am a Listening President”: The New Dispensation, Rhetoric and Contestation within the Ecumenical Movement, Ishanesu S. Gusha (Independent Scholar, Spain)5. Despising the Memory of the Wounded? A Public Theological Evaluation of President Mnangagwa’s “let bygones be bygones” in a Zimbabwe founded and maintained by violence, Collium Banda (North-West University, South Africa)6. Justifying a Coup and the Myth of a Post-Military Assisted Transition ‘New Beginning’ in the Jehu Revolt and the 2017 Zimbabwe Military Intervention, Honoured Taruona (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)7. The Bible in the Street: Apocalyptic Reading of 2 Kings 7:2 in Light of the ‘New Dispensation’ in Zimbabwe, Canisius Mwandayi (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)8. ‘A Regime-Created or a God Driven Situation’? The Zimbabwean Experience under the ‘New Dispensation’, 2017–2023, Mediel Hove and Vincent Chenzi (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)9. Gendering Politics and Religion in Zimbabwe’s’ New Dispensation’: A Response to the Politics of Exclusion, Molly Manyonganise (Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe)10. Expressing missio Dei?: A Theological of Critique of Religious Rhetoric in Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s Presidential Speeches, Suspicion Mudzanire (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)11. Social Media and the Revolution Gospel in Zimbabwe, Clive Tendai Zimunya (Roma University, Lesotho)12. A Paradigm Shift for the Postmodernism Church: Moving from the Pulpit to the Public Enterprise for the Salvation of All, Sifiso Mpofu (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)BibliographyIndex