Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu

The Christian nation, social media presidential photography and 2016 election campaign

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23200026
AutoresChammah J Kaunda (0000-0001-6879-6330, University of South Africa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen4
Número1
Fecha de publicación2018-06-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStellenbosch Theological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2413-9459 • E-ISSN: 2413-9467
EditorialChristian Literature Fund (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17570/stj.2018.v4n1.a11
OpenAlexW2891835886
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas8

This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu’s political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qualitative material collected from January 2016 to February 2018 in Zambia. The missio-ethnography approach as an empirical missiological research which sought to analyse how the Declaration discourse has developed into a political ideology used to legitimized Lungu’s political power and moral authority among some Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector.

Charisma · Charismatic authority · Declaration · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development