Introduction: Religious Enablers/Resistors and Thwarting of the Democratic Space in Zimbabwe
Bekithemba Dube
List of Abbreviations
Chapter One: Mapostori as Regime Enablers and Endangered Group: The Case of Zanu PF and Operation Dudula
Bekithemba Dube
Chapter Two: Evangelism as a Regime Transformer? Evangelical Political Engagement in the Undemocratic Zimbabwean State
Collium Banda
Chapter Three: The Church and Politics in Zimbabwe’s Second Republic
Silindiwe Zvingowanisei and Sophia Chirongoma
Chapter Four: Andrew Wutawunashe and the Politics of Zimbabwe’s Second Republic
Sifiso Mpofu
Chapter Five: Religious Leaders as Psychic Destabilizers: Ambivalent Terrain of Regime Enabling in Zimbabwe
Bekithemba Dube and Gift Masengwe
Chapter Six: Displacing to Occupy the Space: Apostle Talent Chiwenga’s Tactic to Enter the Zimbabwean Religious Gallery
Martin Mujinga and Ezra Chitando
Chapter Seven: Religious Comedians and Regime Enabling in Zimbabwe: The Case of Passion Java, Mai TT, and Madam Boss
Bekithemba Dube
Chapter Eight: The Ideology of the ‘Underbelly’ and the Biblical Prophetic Responsibility of Andrew Wutawunashe in Zimbabwe
Gift Masengwe and Bekithemba Dube
Chapter Nine: Church Conferences as Campaigning Ground for the Ruling Party (Zanu-PF)
Ezekiel Baloyi
Chapter Ten: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?’’: Church and Politics in the Second Republic of Zimbabwe
Robert Matikiti and Maybe Zengenene
Chapter Eleven: The Trajectories of the Church’s Regime Enablers and Regime Resistors in Zimbabwe
Bednicho Nyoni
Chapter Twelve: Preaching, Parrhesia and the Political in Zimbabwe: A case of Apostle Talent Chiwenga
Theophilus Tinashe Nenjerama
About the Contributors