ABSTRACT

This article interrogates family and religious studies in the context of religious leaders who serve as regime enablers and resistors in Zimbabwe. Some religious leaders have overtly or covertly assumed the role of enablers of the current Zimbabwean political matrix, thereby threatening democracy, social justice, and accountability, by using religious narratives to buttress the status quo. I use critical emancipation research as lens to interrogate religious leaders as regime enablers. This theory allows me to name, expose and challenge oppression and injustice in and exclusion from social structures. I answer two questions: What are the trajectories of religious leaders as enablers in postcolonial political discourses, and how can family and religious studies tease resistor ideology among learners, to mitigate the challenges posed by enablers? There is always a price to pay when religious leaders become regime enablers, and there is a need for curriculum that can enact values, such as social justice, equity, and love for humanity, as a counter-hegemonic strategy to mitigate the challenges posed by religious leaders who act as enablers.

摘要

本文在作为津巴布韦政权的推动者和抵抗者的宗教领袖的背景下审视家庭和宗教研究。一些宗教领袖公开或暗中担任当前津巴布韦政治阵营的推动者，从而通过利用宗教叙事来支持现状来威胁民主，社会正义和问责制。我以批判性解放研究为视角，审问宗教领袖作为政权的推动者。这种理论使我能够命名，揭露和挑战社会结构中的压迫和不公正以及将其排除在外。我回答两个问题：宗教领袖在后殖民政治话语中的推动力是什么，以及家庭和宗教研究如何在学习者中挑逗反抗意识形态，减轻促成因素带来的挑战？当宗教领袖成为政权的推动者时，总要付出代价，并且需要制定能够体现诸如社会正义，公平和对人类之爱的价值观的课程，作为减轻霸权主义挑战的反霸权战略。担任推动者的宗教领袖。