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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018Description: xiv, 193 p ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498572637 (hpb) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Healing of memoriesDDC classification:
  • AFR 261.8096 Hea 2018 23
LOC classification:
  • HN780.Z9
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
AFRICAN COLLECTION AFRICAN COLLECTION Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology Library Available at Circulation Section AFR 261.8096 Hea 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20721

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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