TY - MANSCPT AU - Mohammed Girma TI - The healing of memories: African Christian responses to politically induced trauma SN - 9781498572637 (hpb) : AV - HN780.Z9 U1 - AFR 261.8096 Hea 2018 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Lexington Books KW - Political violence KW - Africa KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Psychological aspects KW - Psychic trauma KW - Reconciliation KW - Patients KW - Pastoral counseling of KW - Collective memory N1 - 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 ER -