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...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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| En: |
Political theology
Año: 2020, Volumen: 21, Número: 3, Páginas: 225-246 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Banana, Canaan 1936-2003
/ Teología de la Liberación
/ Expropiación
/ Profecía
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CB Existencia cristiana CG Cristianismo y política KAJ Época contemporánea KBN África subsahariana |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Liberation Theology
B Canaan Banana B land redistribution B Africa B Zimbabwe B land dispossession B Tierra |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Sumario: | 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 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1740144 |