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
Summary
This volume is a comprehensive and balanced examination of the African Christian response to political conflicts. Its strength lies on its focus on the healing of memories from theological, philosophical, cultural and scientific points of view
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2019)
