Religion, Women’s Health Rights, and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe: Volume 2

This volume brings to the fore the interface of religion, women’s sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Zimbabwe. It emphasizes that empowering African women is a pivotal pillar for attaining sustainable development. Contributors discuss the need for implementing structural changes as a prerequisite for social progress and development to occur in Southern Africa. They interrogate the extent to which religious beliefs and practices either promote or impede women’s SRHR. The contributors also proffer several ways in which addressing the themes of health for all and equality for all women and girls can make a meaningful contribution towards the fulfillment of the goals set for Agenda 2030.  

• Indigenous knowledge systems
• sustainable development goals
• SDG 3
• SDG 5
• sexual health
• reproductive health
• postcolonial
• Ndau women

• Midlands State University, Zvishavane, Zimbabwe

  Sophia Chirongoma

• Zimbabwe Open University, Harare, Zimbabwe

  Molly Manyonganise

• University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

  Ezra Chitando

Sophia Chirongoma is a senior lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She is also a research fellow at the University of South Africa under the Research Institute for Theology and Religion.

Molly Manyonganise is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the Zimbabwe Open University. She is also a Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of Pretoria.

Ezra Chitando serves as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and Theology Consultant on HIV for the World Council of Churches. He is also extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape.