Selected Articles in Journals

Masowe Migration: A Quest for Liberation in the African Diaspora, Oxford: Blackwells Religion Compass (2008)
This article shows how the Shona-speaking prophet Johane Masowe (1914–1973) adapted Christianity to the difficult...
 
Women and Ecology in Shona Religion, Word and World Journal, St Paul, MN: Luther Seminary (1999)
This paper examines the connection between roles fulfilled by women as mothers and crop producers...
 
The Dramatization of Life and Death by Johane Masowe, University of Zimbabwe Humanities Journal (1998)
This paper dismisses the claim that Johane Masowe (1914-1973) is a "Black Messiah" replacing Christ...
 

Books

Wandering a Gendered Wilderness: Suffering and Healing in an African Initiated Church, New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group (2007)
This monograph uses an anthropological method of research to access information about an oral tradition...
 
Rewriting the Bible: The Real Issues, Harare: Mambo Press (1992)
In addition to co-editing this book, I published my first two articles as a masters...
 

Selected Chapters of Books

Foundations for Democracy among Evangelical Christians in Zimbabwe, The Bible and Ballot Box: Evangelical Faith and Third World Politics, Oxford University Press (2008)
 
Gender and Marginality as Categories of Social Protest in African Christian Experience, Inculturation & Postcolonial Discourse in African Theology, New York: Peter Lang Publishers (2006)
This article shows how women members of a Masowe Apostle patriarchal church exploit the general...
 
Women of the Diaspora Within: the Masowe Apostles, Women and Religion in African Diaspora, University of Princeton WRAD Project, Johns Hopkins Press (2006)
This paper argues for the development of a multi-dimensional concept of the "diaspora" to encompass...
 

Presentations

Together in the Moonlight: Post-colonialism and Gender in African Spirituality, Public Lecture sponsored by Departments of History, Religion and the African Studies Group, Florida State University (2008)
 
Living with Death in Masowe Apostolic Theology, Paper presented at the African Religions Group at the American Academy of Religions, San Diego (2007)
Same as the abstract of the published paper titled, "The Dramatization of Life and Death...
 

Other

Masowe Wilderness Apostles in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed. Bron Taylor. London: Concilium (2005)
This article introduces Masowe Apostles as an environment-conscious movement whose rituals and religious language tie...