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Dr Lindah Tsara

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | College of Human Sciences
School of Humanities | Department: Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology

Campus: Muckleneuk
Building: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (WMM)
Office: 6-110

  • PhD in Systematic Theology

  • African Pentecostalism in the 4th Industrial Revolution
  • Theology and Gender
  • Feminist and Bosadi women's theories on women's leadership
  • Sexual reproductive health

  • African Pentecostalism in the 4th Industrial Revolution
  • Theology and Gender
  • Feminist and Bosadi women's theories on women's leadership
  • Sexual reproductive health

Book Chapters

  • Tsara L, (2025) Leadership struggles of Women in Topia Sungano Apostolic Church in Zimbabwe in Religion, Gender and Masculinities in Africaessays in Honour of Ezra Chitando, University of Bamberg Press. Molly Manyonganise, Regis Gunda, and Lindah Naiker Eds.
  • 2.Tsara L and Masvotore P (2023) The Virus from Africa? The Religionization and Politicization of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for Zimbabwe in Religion and Health published at University of Bamberg, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-86-309-911-4.
  • Tsara. L (2022) Religio- Cultural Stand Points Hindering Adolescences and Young Women’s Access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in Zimbabwe. in Religion, Women’s Health Rights and Sustainable Development Goals, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-86309-812-4.
  • Tsara. L and Masvotore. P (2022), ‘Leadership Struggles in the Church: Interfacing and Theologizing leadership positions of Women clergy in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (MCZ).’ISBN: 978-1-66690-332-4.
  • Tsara L and Siwila L (2021) “Dzimba Dzevarwere” (Makeshift clinics) As a Safe Haven for Women’s Reproductive Health in An African Indigenous Apostolic Church in Zimbabwe. A book chapter in That All May Live: Essays in Honora of Nyambura J Njoroge, University of Bamberg Press. Ezra Chitando, Esther Mombo, and Masiiwa Regies Gunda eds. P. 323-336. ISBN: 978-3-86309-812-4.

  • Tsara, L. (2025). Mother Earth, Pandemics, and Women’s Reproductive Health in African Apostolic Indigenous Churches in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. Journal for the Study of Religion38(1). https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2025/v38n1a3
  • Tsara, L., Mudau, N., & Mudimeli, L. (2025). Women’s Stories on the “Working of Talents” as Agents of Economic Transformation in South Africa. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 15-pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/18423
  • Mudau, N., Tsara, L., & Mudimeli, L. M. (2025). Revealing the Untold Stories: Documenting the Experiences of Marginalised Widows within the Church Leadership of Black Reformed Churches in Limpopo, South Africa. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 20-pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/18378.
  • Tsara, L., & Mwapfaa, T. (2025). Unveiling Gender Inequalities in Pandemics: a Feminist Approach to Unravel the Socio-economic Effects of Covid-19 on Women in Zimbabwe, Gender and Behaviour, 23(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v23i1.8
  • Tsara, L., & Mudimeli, L. (2025). Pentecostalism and False Qualifications: A Reflection on Theological Education of Pentecostal Pastors in Southern Africa, Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. XXXVIIl, No.2.
  • Tsara, L., and Mudimeli. L (2024). Covid-19 and Women’s Mental Health: A Case of Women in Polygamous Marriages in Johane Marange Apostolic Church in Zimbabwe (ISSN: 1823-884x)
  • Tsara, L., & Mudimeli, L. (2024). Pentecostalism and Social Transformation in Southern Africa: A Missiological Approach.
  • Tsara L (2024). ‘It is soil but sacred’: Exploring the importance of mbiya (clay pot) in the healing and deliverance services in St John Apostolic Church of the Whole World and Johane Masowe Wechishanu churches in Zimbabwe. Special Edition 3: Volume 1, ATJACK. ISSN:2789-3391; OnlineISSN:2789-9306.
  • Tsara, L., & Makamure (2023) Emerging Theologies of Healing, Prophetic and Deliverance Services in African Apostolic Indigenous Churches (AAICs): The Case of Johane Masowe Wechishanu (JMWC) in Zimbabwe. Special Edition 3: Volume, ATJACK. ISSN:2789-3391; Online ISSN:2789-9306.
  • 10. Masvotore P, & Tsara, L. (2023) Poverty with a feminine face: Theologizing feminization and poverty in Mutasa Nyanga District in Manicaland Province Zimbabwe. (HTS Journal). ISBN: 2072-8050.
  • Masvotore, P., & Tsara, L. (2020) ‘South Africa’s Road to Democracy Could Have suffered a stillbirth, had it not been the unseen role played by Women: Interfacing with undercover operations of women’ in Special Edition in Alternation Journal
  • Masvotore P and Tsara. L (2020) ‘South Africa’s Road to Democracy Could Have suffered a stillbirth, had it not been the unseen role played by Women: Interfacing with undercover operations of women’ in Special Edition in Alternation Journal

  •  Session Best Presenter Award, presented at a conference on Future Women in Thailand.