The Religions of Zimbabwe

Indigenous Beliefs

• Shona and Ndebele Religions: An Introduction

Christianity

• Reconciliation and Self Rule in Zimbabwean Denominations
• Roman Catholicism
• Protestantism
• Missionary activities
  • Missionaries and Colonization
  • Missionaries and the Fight Against Colonialism

Syncretic (part Christian, part indigenous beliefs)

• Religious Syncretism
• Conflicting Traditions and Layered Meaning

Islam

Religion, Politics, and Society

• The Church Could Be More Vigorous in Its Approach to Problems Bedeviling Zimbabwe

Religion in Zimbabwean Literature and the Arts

• Traditional healers and the first and second Chimurenga
  • Yvonne Vera's Nehanda
  • Nehanda in Chenjerai Hove's Bones
• Traditional beliefs in the contemporary novel
  • The Continuing Presence of the Dead in Chenjerai Hove's Ancestors
  • Medicine Men and Resistance in Chenjerai Hove's Ancestors
  • Ritual in Yvonne Vera's Nehanda
• Missionaries and Christianity in Zimbabwean Fiction
  • Religion and the Legacy of Colonialism in Contemporary Zimbabwe
  • "Where an Angry God Burned his Beloved in a Pit of Fire"
  • A Clash of Religions: Kaguvi Encounters the Christian Conception of an Afterlife (Vera's Nehanda)
  • "We Shall Be Kings in Heaven" (Vera's Nehanda)
• Christian Subjects in the Visual Arts
  • Tenda Mutasa's Moses Receiving the Ten Commandments
  • Mother, Daughter, and the Cross

Bibliography

• Bibliography

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Last Modified: 28 August 2003