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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793122003321

Titolo

The healing of memories : African Christian responses to politically induced trauma / / edited by Mohammed Girma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-7264-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

307.1412096

Soggetti

Political violence - Africa - Religious aspects - Christianity

Political violence - Africa - Psychological aspects

Psychic trauma - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

From painful memory to restorative nostalgia / Mohammed Girma -- Remembering to forget, forgetting to remember : memory, trauma and religious imagination in Africa / Afe Adogame -- "And I will heal their land" : the role of the South African faith community in the quest for healing and reconciliation / Piet Meiring -- Christian churches in post-genocide Rwanda : reconciliation and its limits / Timothy Longman -- Mirror of memory : some thoughts on the Ethiopian Red Terror / Theodros Assefa -- "When the foundations are destroyed". (Psalm 11:3) : Lament, healing, social repair and political reinvention in eastern Congo / Emmanuel Katongole -- The cry of Rachel : African women's reading of the Bible for healing / Musa Dube -- Ubuntu, Christianity and two kinds of reconciliation / Thaddeus Metz -- The intertwinement of science and the Bible in the healing of traumatized memories / Schalk Botha -- Conclusion.