The Ngabwe Covenant' and the Search for an African Theology of Eco-Pneumato-Relational Way of Being in Zambia

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ID3376919
AutoresChammah J Kaunda (0000-0001-6879-6330, Yonsei University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume11
Fascículo6
Páginas275
Data de publicação2020-06-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11060275
OpenAlexW3033782545
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas28

This study explores the ways in which the born-again traditional leaders in Zambia are redefining neo-Pentecostal interaction with nonhuman creation. It demonstrates their attempts to rapture new religious imaginations in interstitial spaces between neo-Pentecostalism and Africa's old spiritual systems. Since eco-spirituality is foundational to most African traditional institutions, some born again traditional leaders are forced to search for contextualized forms of neo-Pentecostalism to form new collective expressions of the spirituality of healing and reconciliation of all things. Grounded in the third space translation approach, this study analyzes 'The Ngabwe Covenant' which was made by the late neo-Pentecostal clergy and later traditional leader Ngabwe upon his inauguration as the traditional leader of Lamba-Lenje-and-Lima people of Central Province in Zambia. The study argues that Chief Ngabwe attempted to translate neo-Pentecostal spirituality through a traditional spiritual system of eco-relationality. In so doing, neo-Pentecostal spirituality and traditional religio-cultural heritages found new meaning and home within the hybridized (new) religious space. The study underlines that the resultant religious view which could be described as an African theology of eco-pneumato-relational way of being was envisioned as a new spiritual foundation for the Ngabwe kingdom. The article concludes that Rev. TL. Ngabwe's theology of Spirit's indwelling of the natural world is a critical contribution to neo-Pentecostal search for life-giving interactions between human and nonhuman creation

Aesthetics · Covenant · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Worship · African cultural and philosophical studies · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development