Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu: The Christian nation, social media presidential photography and 2016 election campaign
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 qual...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Stellenbosch University
[2018]
|
| In: |
Stellenbosch theological journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 215-245 |
| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Christianising Lungu Edgar Chagwa
B Social media B missio-ethnography B missio-political B Presidential candidate photographic self-representation B Zambia B Declaration discourse |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (doi) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2413-9467 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Stellenbosch theological journal
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17570/stj.2018.v4n1.a11 |