RT Article
T1 Canaan Banana, Churches and the Land Issue: Revisiting Theology of Zimbabwe’s Vilified Prophet
JF Political theology
VO 21
IS 3
SP 225
OP 246
A1 Urbaniak, Jakub 1983-
A1 Manobo, Blazio M.
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1724636413
AB This study seeks to revisit and evaluate the “combat theology” developed by Canaan Banana, a contemporary theologian, Methodist minister and the first president of Zimbabwe, notably with regard to the issue of land dispossession. It does so primarily against the backdrop of the historical analysis of the ways in which power operated at the intersection of religion and politics during the first three decades after Zimbabwe’s attainment of political independence (1980). The article interrogates several facets of Banana’s liberationist view of justice with regard to the land issue, including (a) speaking truth to political power, regardless of consequences; (b) bearing a prophetic witness vis-à-vis the church’s own complicity in wrongdoing; as well as (c) making a distinction between the selective acts of “liberating violence” and the systemic violence inherent in unjust socio-political structures.
K1 Africa
K1 Canaan Banana
K1 Zimbabwe
K1 Land
K1 land dispossession
K1 land redistribution
K1 Liberation Theology
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1740144