Unisa Press

Religious Practice

in Pluralist Zimbabwe: Identity, Gender, Justice and the Environment

Published: November 17, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-77615-092-2
Number of pages: 152
This book is also available in electronic format
ISBN: 9781776150939

About the book

Religious Practice in Pluralist Zimbabwe: Identity, Gender, Justice and the Environment, is a must-read for the learner, teacher, and lecturer at every level: primary, high school, tertiary and praxis levels in Zimbabwe and beyond.

It is highly recommended for religious practitioners across the religious divide, despite its concentration on the Abrahamic trilogy and African Indigenous Religions (AIR). The book is a product of academics and researchers in the field of religious studies who realised a dearth and lacunae of information created especially in the teaching of religion in schools upon the introduction of the new curriculum in 2017 in Zimbabwe.
Inspired by the Nziramasanga Commission of 1999 and other publications which called for a new approach in the teaching of religion, this book does not only give the rationale for teaching religion using the multi-faith approach.

Rather, it practically touches on critical issues around four pathways, namely, AIR, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It also invites the reader to be open-minded as it acknowledges that the four religions covered by the book are only a part of addressing religious issues in Zimbabwe whose constitution promotes the right to freedom of conscience, belief and religion. As such, this is an indispensable resource book affording every reader’s approach to such inalienable concepts a identity, gender, justice and the environment.

Table of content

Preface vii

Abbreviations ix

Introduction

Edmore Dube and Prosper Muzambi 1

Religious Studies syllabus: Suspicions, fears and misgivings

Wilson Zivave and Prosper Muzambi 6

Islam from origins to current practices in a pluralist milieu

Edmore Dube 22

The Remba paternity discourse and the new FRS syllabus

Edmore Dube 46

Domestic animals and indigenous Ndau spirituality

Shoorai Konyana 59

Indigenous colour conundrum in Shona cosmology

Bernard Pindukai Humbe 70

Laudato Si’ and the ecological conversion in Zimbabwe

Conrad Chibango 82

Amos speaks to contemporary Zimbabwe on human dignity

Vincent Box, Edmore Dube and Nyasha Madzokere 108

A critique of Pius Ncube: Zimbabwe’s replica of prophet Amos

Nyasha Madzokere and Francis Machingura 120

Religion and gender in the Abrahamic trilogy

Caroline Dimingu, Henerieta Mgovo and Milca Mudewairi 132

Concluding remarks

Edmore Dube 149

Index 152