Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu: The Christian nation, social media presidential photography and 2016 election campaign

This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu's political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qual...

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Main Author: Kaunda, Chammah J. 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Stellenbosch University [2018]
In: Stellenbosch theological journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 215-245
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Christianising Lungu Edgar Chagwa
B Social media
B missio-ethnography
B missio-political
B Presidential candidate photographic self-representation
B Zambia
B Declaration discourse
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Summary:This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu's political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qualitative material collected from January 2016 to February 2018 in Zambia. The missio-ethnography approach as an empirical missiological research which sought to analyse how the Declaration discourse has developed into a political ideology used to legitimized Lungu's political power and moral authority among some Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector.
ISSN:2413-9467
Contains:Enthalten in: Stellenbosch theological journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.17570/stj.2018.v4n1.a11