The healing of memories : African Christian responses to politically induced trauma /
The healing of memories : African Christian responses to politically induced trauma /
edited by Mohammed Girma.
- New York.: : Lexington Books, c2018.
- xiv, 193 p ; 22 cm.
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.
9781498572637 (hpb) : Đ65.00
2018025536
Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.--Africa
Political violence--Psychological aspects.--Africa
Psychic trauma--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Reconciliation--Religious aspects--Christianity--Africa.
Psychic trauma--Patients--Pastoral counseling of--Africa.
Collective memory--Africa.
HN780.Z9
AFR 261.8096 Hea 2018
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.
9781498572637 (hpb) : Đ65.00
2018025536
Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.--Africa
Political violence--Psychological aspects.--Africa
Psychic trauma--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Reconciliation--Religious aspects--Christianity--Africa.
Psychic trauma--Patients--Pastoral counseling of--Africa.
Collective memory--Africa.
HN780.Z9
AFR 261.8096 Hea 2018