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125 Years of Catholicism in Zambia: The History and Mission of the Church in the Provision of University Education
Oral History Journal of South Africa
This article is based on an inquiry of the 125 years of Catholicism in Zambia, with reference to the history and mission of the Roman Catholic Church in providing university education. The observable expansion of the church’s involvement in university education has not received attention in academia and therefore needed analysis; as religion and scholarship have been devoid of the Christian university movement discourse in the country. Informed by interpretivism, the study followed an interpretative case study approach. Data were collected through document reviews and recorded interviews and were inductively analysed. The findings of the study revealed that the church has expanded its presence in the provision of university education, through the establishment of the Zambia Catholic University. The article contends that contrary to how the Catholic Church’s involvement in education was portrayed, which was seen to be only centred on the church’s involvement in primary and secondary ...
Religious education in Zambia at fifty years of independence and beyond: achievements and challenges.
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The relationship between religion (church) and education (state) through religious education (RE) in Zambia has passed through different stages of development. During the missionary period (1883/1890- 1924), RE was, naturally, offered in the
With particular emphasis to Zambia, RE has since independence developed from being confessional and denominational in the 1960s, through being ecumenical and interdenominational in the 1970s, to being educational and multi-faith from the 1980s.
Religious Education (RE) as a school subject in Zambia owes much of what it is today to the Christian missionaries who arrived in the 19 th century. Their evangelical efforts were...
This article revisits the relationship between religion and education in post-1990 to understand the growing public role of religion in higher education in Zambia. The aim of the study that informs …
This article is based on an inquiry of the 125 years of Catholicism in Zambia, with reference to the history and mission of the Roman Catholic Church in providing university education.
Abstract. The relationship between religion (church) and education (state) through religious education (RE) in Zambia has passed through different stages of development. During the missionary period (1883/1890- 1924), RE was, naturally, offered in the form of Religious Instruction (RI) and was thus fully denominational and confessional.
Abstract. This article provides the history of Catholic state-aided schooling in Zambia for over a century. It notes how the Catholic Church came to view its school to be a pivotal means of church development.
This chapter traces the historical evolution of Religious Education in Zambia in order to provide an understanding of its changing faces in the past fifty years of independence. In the process, RE was transformed from an evangelical tool to an educational subject.
‘multifaith’ Religious Education (RE) in Zambia after 1964. Our analysis makes a contribution to the discourse on inter-religious RE in Zambia by demonstrating how Zambia became a multifaith society, a context in which political statements and ideologies have influenced the framing of the aim, and selection of, the content of the subject.
Religious Education has long been part of Zambia’s primary and secondary education curriculum. Though it contains a social justice section, it has been weakly socially transformative.