Dr. M. Manyonganise

Academic Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical and Religious Studies (University of Pretoria, 2016)

Master of Arts in Religious Studies (University of Zimbabwe, 1996)

Bachelor of Arts Honors in Religious Studies (University of Zimbabwe, 1994)

Graduate Certificate in Education (University of Zimbabwe, 2003)

Research Interests

Molly Manyonganise has research interests in religion and politics, gender and religion, religion and sexuality, African Indigenous Religion(s) as well as African Christianity.

Selected Publications

1. Manyonganise, M. & Mhuru, L. 2022d. Beyond the Sacred Text: Examining the Confusion, Conflicts and Complications at the Intersection of Religion and Law in Zimbabwe. Religions, 13(3), 240; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13030240.
2. Manyonganise, M. 2022c. The March is not Ended: Church confronting the State over the Zimbabwean Crisis. Religions, 13:107 https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13020107.
3. Manyonganise, M. 2022b. ‘When a Pandemic Wears the Face of a Woman’: Intersections of Religion and Gender during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe in Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa. Eds. Sibanda, F, Mabuya A & Chitando, E. (London: Routledge).
4. Biri, K. & Manyonganise, M. 2022a. “Back to Sender”: Re-Visiting the Belief in Witchcraft in Post-colonial Zimbabwean Pentecostalism. Religions, 13:49 https://doi.org/10.3390/relI3010049.
5. Manyonganise, M. & Mhuru, L. 2021d. ‘A Bill from the Pit of Hell?’ Of Civil Partnerships, Marriage and Religion in Zimbabwe. In Law, Religion and the Family in Africa. Eds. Green, Christian, M. & Kabata, F. (Stellenbosch: African Sun Media), 3-22.
6. Manyonganise, M. 2021c. ‘Ndadhinhiwa (I am fed up): A Missiological Framing of the Gendered Notions of African Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe’. Missionalia, 49:99-114.
7. Manyonganise, M. 2021b. Rebranding Pentecostalism: An Analysis of the United Family International Church and Prophetic Healing Deliverance Ministries in Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Megachurches and the Marketization of Religion. Ed. Chitando, E. (London: Bloomsbury Academic), 89-102.
8. Manyonganise, M. & Museka, G. (2020a). The Sedated Sacred: A Socio-Religious Analysis of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Programme and Environmental Degradation. in Mother Earth, Mother Africa and African Indigenous Religions. Eds Matholeni, N., Boateng, G.K. & Manyonganise, M. (Cape Town: Africa Sun Media), 67-84.
9. Manyonganise, M. (2019b): UFIC’s ‘Victorious Ladies’: Using the ‘Annointing to Reclaim Christian Women’s Economic Space in Zimbabwe in Powered by Faith: Pentecostal Businesswomen in Harare, Ed. Mapuranga, T. P. (Eugene: Wipf and Stock), 64-78.
10. Manyonganise, M. (2017b): Invisibilising the Victimised: Churches in Manicaland and Women’s Experiences of Political Violence in National Healing and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Journal for the Study of Religion, 30(1):110-136.
11. Manyonganise, M. (2016a). A chapter entitled ‘“We will Chop their Heads off”: Homosexuality vs Religio-Political Grandstanding in Zimbabwe’ in Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa, Eds. Van Klinken, A., Chitando, E. (London: Routledge), 63-77.
12. Manyonganise, M. (2015c): Oppressive and Liberative: A Zimbabwean Woman’s Reflections on Ubuntu. Verbum et Ecclesia, 36(2):32-38.
13. Manyonganise, M. (2014d): African Independent Churches: The Dynamics of their Political Participation in Zimbabwe in Multiplying in the Spirit: African Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe. Eds.Chitando, E., Gunda, M.R., Kuegler, J. (Bamberg: Bamberg University Press), 161-174.
14. Manyonganise, M. (2013a): The Zimbabwe We Want Document: A Critique of the Ecumenical Collaborative Response to the Zimbabwe Political Crisis in Prayers and Players: Religion and Politics in Zimbabwe, Ed. Chitando, E. (Harare: SAPES Books), 143-157.
15. Manyonganise, M. (2010): From ‘Safety’ Zones to Public Spaces: Women’s Participation in Sport in Zimbabwe in Gender, Sport, and Development in Africa: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Patterns of Representations and Marginalisation, Ed. Shehu, J. (Dakar: CODESRIA), 13-26.Contact Detailsmanyonganisem@zou.ac.zwmollymanyonganise@yahoo.com

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