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Religious Leaders and the Regime in the Second Republic of Zimbabwe looks at the nexus of religion and politics in Zimbabwe. Religious leaders and institutes are discussed as either regime enablers, resistors, or transformers. This book focuses on how religion has played a role in thwarting democracy and has acted as a machine to silence dissenting voices, repression, and poor governance. The book addresses religious figures such as Andrew Wutawunashe, Talent Chiwenga, Bishop Mutendi, and Mapostori. In discussing these figures, the book highlights how ZANU PF has taken advantage of religious power to thwart democracy while rewarding regime enablers. The book also discusses the road to 2023 Zimbabwean elections and highlights the role of the church in creating an enabling and catastrophic environment. This book challenges oppressive systems perpetrated by religious leaders and politicians.

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Here is another valuable resource for the church, governments, and the academy today. Every page of the book rhythms under the overriding theme of an intersection of the church, religion, and politics. Originating from an African soil, it will serve as a timely reminder of the need for the church to recapture its moral-high-ground of religious purity. Clearly laced with vivid contextual biblical, theological, and spiritual insights, the book redefines the church’s mission today in the most heartbreaking contexts of the continent. It calls for the church to go beyond celebrating its occupancy of a central space in African communities and controlling a major share of the spiritual market but to expound what it means and how the church can move from being regime enablers and resistors to regime transformers, to use the editor’s prominent words. The book is far-reaching, thought-provoking, inspirational, and applicable to Africa and beyond. -- Alfred Wimana Sebahene, St John’s University of Tanzania

Here is another valuable resource for the church, governments, and the academy today. Every page of the book rhythms under the overriding theme of an intersection of the church, religion, and politics. Originating from an African soil, it will serve as a timely reminder of the need for the church to recapture its moral-high-ground of religious purity. Clearly laced with vivid contextual biblical, theological, and spiritual insights, the book redefines the church's mission today in the most heartbreaking contexts of the continent. It calls for the church to go beyond celebrating its occupancy of a central space in African communities and controlling a major share of the spiritual market but to expound what it means and how the church can move from being regime enablers and resistors to regime transformers, to use the editor's prominent words. The book is far-reaching, thought-provoking, inspirational, and applicable to Africa and beyond. -- Alfred Wimana Sebahene, St John's University of Tanzania

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Bekithemba Dube is associate professor and Head of Department at the University of the Free State.

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