Ezra Chitando is a Zimbabwean

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Academic. He is Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion at the

University of Zimbabwe The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is a public university in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was opened in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was initially affiliated with the University of London. It was later renamed the Univers ...

, in Harare, Zimbabwe. He serves as Theology Consultant on HIV and AIDS with EHAIA, the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy, of the

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodo ...

. In this capacity, he has engaged in gender activism, specifically concerned with transforming socio-cultural and religious notions of masculinity.

Background

Chitando holds a DPhil degree (University of Zimbabwe, 2001), a MA degree (University of Zimbabwe, 1993), and a BA HONS degree (University of Zimbabwe, 1991), all in the study of religion. He has held visiting positions and research fellowships with institutions such as the

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(Germany),

Nordic Africa Institute Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) () serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute conducts independent, policyrelevant research, provides analysis and informs decisionmaking, with ...

(Sweden), and the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

(UK). Chitando has researched and published about contemporary religion in Africa, mostly in Zimbabwe.

Writings

As sole author

* ''Troubled but not destroyed: African theology in dialogue with HIV/AIDS'' (2009) * ''Living with Hope: African Churches and HIV/AIDS'' (2007) *''Acting in Hope: African Churches and HIV/AIDS'' (2007) * ''Singing culture: a study of Gospel music in Zimbabwe'' (2002)

As co-author

* ''Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa'' (2021)

As editor

* ''Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism'' (2021) * ''The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and development in Zimbabwe'' (2021) * ''African Initiated Churches facing HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe'' (2021) * ''Politics and religion in Zimbabwe : the deification of Robert G. Mugabe'' (2020) * ''Religion and development in Africa'' (2020) * ''African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies'' (2017) * ''Redemptive masculinities : men, HIV, and religion'' (2012) * ''Prophets, profits and the Bible in Zimbabwe Festschrift for Aynos Masotcha Moyo'' (2013)

References

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