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- Title
Ethical Implications of Missionary Christianity and the Emergence of Chibarirwe African Initiated Church in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Cultural Rights Discourse.
- Authors
MUKOVA, MAXWELL; MANGENA, FAINOS
- Abstract
The emergency of African Initiated Churches (AICs) in Colonial Zimbabwe was reaction to what the Africans had perceived as cultural genocide as perpetrated by missionary Christianity which had labored to convince Africans to abandon their values and become Christians. This had serious ethical ramifications as it was clear that the missionaries were using their African counterparts as means to their own ends. The Dutch Reformed Church being one of the pioneering missionary churches was at the forefront of this demonizing project. Thus, Chibarirwe African Initiated Church emerged to challenge this attitude and to give the African a homegrown option of fellowshipping. In this essay, we look at the extent of this cultural genocide and the African reaction to it using the lances of cultural rights.
- Subjects
AFRICA; ZIMBABWE; NETHERLANDS; CHRISTIANITY; NETHERLANDS Reformed Church; RELIGION &; ethics; HUMAN rights; CHRISTIAN missionaries; RELIGION &; culture; CULTURAL rights; HISTORY; RELIGION
- Publication
Western Journal of Black Studies, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0197-4327
- Publication type
Article