Dr. Molly Manyonganise

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsReligious Studies,African Studies
Keywordsmasculinities, gender, political participation, patriarchy, biblical engagement
Honours and awards

2024: Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians award for outstanding research in Theology

2019: AOSIS Award Certificate for the most cited article within the AOSIS Theological and Religious Studies Scholarly field

Current contact address

CountryZimbabwe
CityHarare
InstitutionZimbabwe Open University (ZOU)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Joachim KüglerFakultät Katholische Theologie, Lehrstuhl für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg
Prof. Dr. Joachim KüglerLehrstuhl für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg
Dr. Philipp ÖhlmannSeminar für Ländliche Entwicklung (SLE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2020

Programme(s)

2020Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023Molly Manyonganise: COVID-19, Gender and Health: Re-centering Women in African Indigenous Health Discourses in Zimbabwe for Environmental Conservation. In: HTS Teologiese/Theological Studies, 79, 2023,
2023Molly Manyonganise: Daring Patriarchy: A Biblical Engagement with Gender Discourses on Political Participation in Post-colonial Zimbabwe. University of Bamberg Press, 2023
2023Ezra Chitando, Sophia Chirongoma & Molly Manyonganise: Introduction: Gendered Spaces, Religion and Migration in Zimbabwe: Implications for Development. In: Ezra Chitando, Sophia Chirongoma & Molly Manyonganise, Gendered Spaces, Religion and Migration in Zimbabwe: Implications for Development. Routledge, 2023. 1-16
2023Molly Manyonganise, Ezra Chitando & Sophia Chirongoma: Introduction: Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe. In: Molly Manyonganise, Ezra Chitando & Sophia Chirongoma, Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe: An Ecofeminist Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 1-21
2023Molly Manyonganise, Ezra Chitando & Sophia Chirongoma: Introduction: Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe. In: Molly Manyonganise, Ezra Chitando & Sophia Chirongoma, Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe: Engagement and Activism in Religious Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 1-16
2023Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga, Angeline Mavis Madongonda & Molly Manyonganise: Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa. In: HTS Teologiese/Theological Studies, 79, 2023,
2022Kudzai Biri & Molly Manyonganise: "Back to Sender": Re-visiting the Belief in Witchcraft in Post-colonial Zimbabwean Pentecostalism. In: Religions, 13, 2022, 10
2022Molly Manyonganise: 'The March is Not Ended': 'Church' Confronting the State over the Zimbabwean Crisis. In: Religions, 13, 2022, 15
2022Molly Manyonganise: 'When a Pandemic Wears the Face of a Woman': Intersections of Religion and Gender during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe. In: Fortune Sibanda, Tenson Muyambo and Ezra Chitando, Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa. Routledge, 2022. 232-243
2022Molly Manyonganise & Lillian Mhuru: Beyond the Sacred Text: Examining the Confusion, Conflicts and Complications at the Intersection of Religion and Law in Zimbabwe. In: Religions, 13, 2022, 11
2022Sophia Chirongoma, Molly Manyonganise & Ezra Chitando: Introduction: Religion, Women’s Health Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe. In: Sophia Chirongoma, Molly Manyonganise & Ezra Chitando, Religion, Women’s Health Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 1-19
2022Sophia Chirongoma, Molly Manyonganise & Ezra Chitando: Introduction: Religion, Women’s Health Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe. In: Sophia Chirongoma, Molly Manyonganise & Ezra Chitando, Religion, Women’s Health Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 1-13
2021Molly Manyonganise & Lillian Mhuru: "A Bill from the Pit of Hell": Of Civil Partnerships, Marriage and Religion in Zimbabwe. In: Christian, M. Green and Faith Kabata, Law, Religion and the Family in Africa. African Sun Media, 2021. 3-22
2021Molly Manyonganise: Development as a Factor in the Religion and Human Security Nexus in Africa. In: Joram Tarusarira and Ezra Chitando, Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa. Routledge, 2021. 134-151
2021Molly Manyonganise: Ndadhinhiwa (I am Fed Up: A Missiological Framing of the Gendered Notions of African Pentecostalism. In: Missionalia, 49, 2021, 99-114
2021Molly Manyonganise: Rebranding Pentecostalism: An Analysis of the United Family International Church and Prophetic Healing Deliverance Ministries. In: Ezra Chitando, Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Megachurches and the Marketization of Religion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 89-102
2020Molly Manyonganise: Publicising the ‘Private’: New Pentecostal Movements in Zimbabwe and the Discourses on Sexuality. In: Chammah, J. Kaunda, Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 51-65
2020Molly Manyonganise and Godfrey Museka: The Sedated Sacred: A Socio-Religious Analysis of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Programme and Environmental Degradation. In: Penxa Nobuntu Matholeni, Georgina Boateng and Molly Manyonganise, Mother Earth, Mother Africa and African Indigenous Religions. African Sun Media, 2020. 67-84
2020Molly Manyonganise: Together for Development? The Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference and Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe. In: Ezra Chitando, The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Development in Zimbabwe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 35-50
2020Molly Manyonganise: ‘Commoditising Health: Of Guesthouses and Spiritual/Faith Healing in Zimbabwe’s New Pentecostal Movements’. In: Alternation, 30, 2020, 257-277