Canaan Banana, Churches and the Land Issue: Revisiting Theology of Zimbabwe’s Vilified Prophet
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 o...
| Κύριοι συγγραφείς: | ; |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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| Στο/Στη: |
Political theology
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 21, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 225-246 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Banana, Canaan 1936-2003
/ Θεολογία της απελευθέρωσης
/ Απαλλοτρίωση
/ Προφητεία (μοτίβο)
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CB Χριστιανική ύπαρξη, Πνευματικότητα CG Χριστιανισμός και Πολιτική KAJ Εκκλησιαστική Ιστορία 1914-, Σύγχρονη Εποχή ΚΒΝ Υποσαχάρια Αφρική |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Χώρα
B Liberation Theology B Canaan Banana B land redistribution B Africa B Zimbabwe B land dispossession |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Σύνοψη: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1740144 |