Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-48360-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe was listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of thirteen African countries to have fully vaccinated more than 10% of its population against COVID- 19 by the end of September 2021, but the country fell far short of the government’s own target for achieving 60% inoculation by December 2020. This book analyses whether religion played a role in explaining why the government’s pro- vaccine stance did not translate into high vaccination rates. Drawing upon various religions, including African indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam, the book considers how faith actors demonstrated vaccine acceptance, resistance or hesitancy. Zimbabwe offers a particularly interesting and varied case for analysis, and the original research on display here will be an important contribution to wider debates on religion and COVID- 19. This book will be useful to academics, researchers and students studying religious studies, sociology, health and well- being, religion and development.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muyambo, Tenson

Sibanda, Fortune

Chitando, Ezra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe

Tenson Muyambo, Fortune Sibanda & Ezra Chitando

 

Chapter 2: Bridging the ‘Social Distance’ between Public Health and Religion: Insights from Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in Zimbabwe

Mutsawashe Chitando and Ezra Chitando

 

 

Chapter 3: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and COVID-19: A Case Study of the Ndau in eastern Zimbabwe

Anniegrace Hlatywayo and Sophia Chirongoma

 

Chapter 4: Unpacking and Repackaging the Shona Funeral and Post Burial Rites in the Context of the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) in Zimbabwe

Beatrice Taringa & Sophia Chirongoma

 

Chapter 5: Situating mainline Christian churches’ responses to COVID-19 vaccination in Masvingo and Bikita Districts, Zimbabwe 

Tenson Muyambo, Josiah Taru & Fortune Sibanda

 

Chapter 6: ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ (John 1:46): The Relevance of Apostolic Women’s Empowerment Trust in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe

Tobias Marevesa and Fortune Sibanda

 

Chapter 7: Muslim response to COVID19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: A focus on Mberengwa ummah 

Edmore Dube

 

Chapter 8: Migrant Communities and COVID-19 Vaccination at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe

Wisdom Sibanda

 

Chapter 9: COVID-19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: Sites and scenes of power contestations through the lenses of spirituality and uncertainty

Tarsisio M. Nyatsanza

 

Chapter 10: African Indigenous Churches’ response to the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe: A case of Johane Marange Apostolic Church

Henerieta Mgovo

 

Chapter 11: ‘Disconcerting Vaccination Voices’: Experiences of diasporic Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom

Nomatter Sande and Silas Nyadzo

 

Chapter 12: Vaccination uptake and power dynamics: Insights from African Initiated Churches and traditional healers in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe

Excellent Chiresh and Mavis Thokozile Macheka

 

Chapter 13: The Bible and COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe: Critical Reflections on the Influence of the Bible on both Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy

Makomborero Allen Bowa

 

Chapter 14: Vaccination in African Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe: A recipe for Church ideological bisection

Bernard Pindukai Humbe

 

Chapter 15: Shona Traditional Religion, Gender and COVID-19 vaccination in Zimbabwe: The case of Buhera South, Manicaland province

Maradze Viriri, Etwin Machibaya & Cuthbert Pisirai

 

Chapter 16: From Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination to Religion and Development? A Review

Ezra Chitando, Tenson Muyambo and Fortune Sibanda

Über Autor(innen)

Tenson Muyambo earned a PhD from the University of KwaZulu Natal

(UKZN), South Africa. He is a research fellow at the University of South

Africa’s (UNISA) Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR),

College of Human Sciences. He lectures at the Great Zimbabwe University,

and researches and publishes extensively on indigenous knowledge systems,

religion (Ndau indigenous religion), gender, education, pandemics and

African Spirituality. He has co- edited the books, Religion and the COVID- 19

Pandemic in Southern Africa (2022) and Re- imagining Indigenous Knowledge

and Practices in 21st Century Africa: Debunking Myths and Misconceptions

for Conviviality and Sustainability (2022).



Fortune Sibanda (PhD) is a professor of Religious Studies in the Department of

Philosophy and Religious Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo

and Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Eswatini,

Eswatini. Professor Sibanda is also a research fellow in the Research

Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa. He is a specialist

in the History and Phenomenology of Religion; African Indigenous

Religions and New Religious Movements (particularly Rastafari). His

research interests include Indigenous Knowledge Systems, religion and

health, religion and the environment, human rights issues, law and religion,

religion and the culinary arts tackled from an African perspective. Sibanda

has published edited books, book chapters and his work has also appeared

in refereed journals. He is a member of a number of academic associations,

including the American Academy of Religion (AAR), African Consortium

for Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS), African Theological Institutions

in Southern and Central Africa (ATISCA), Association for the Study of

Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA) and African Association for the

Study of Religion (AASR). Professor Sibanda is a member of the ACLARS

Publication Committee and ACLARS Board member.



Ezra Chitando (DPhil) is a professor of History and Phenomenology of

Religion at the University of Zimbabwe. His broad research and publication

interests include method and theory in the study of religion, as well as

religion, health, gender, security, politics, development, climate change, and

sexuality, among others.