Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu

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

Authors

  • Chammah J Kaunda University of South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17570/stj.2018.v4n1.a11

Keywords:

Declaration discourse, Presidential candidate photographic self-representation, missio-ethnography, missio-political, Christianising Lungu Edgar Chagwa, social media, Zambia

Abstract

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.

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Published

2018-06-30

How to Cite

Kaunda, C. J. (2018). Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu : The Christian nation, social media presidential photography and 2016 election campaign. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 4(1), 215–245. https://doi.org/10.17570/stj.2018.v4n1.a11

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018)

Section

General Articles (articles from all theological disciplines)

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