Healing of Memories (eBook)

African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma

Mohammed Girma (Herausgeber)

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2018
208 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7264-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Africa has seen many political crises ranging from violent political ideologies, to meticulous articulated racist governance system, to ethnic clashes resulting in genocide and religious conflicts that have planted the seed of mutual suspicion.The masses impacted by such crises live with the past that has not passed. The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma examines Christian responses to the damaging impact of conflict on the collective memory. Troubled memory is a recipe for another cycle of conflict. While most academic works tend to stress forgiving and forgetting, they did not offer much as to how to deal with the unforgettable past. This book aims to fill this gap by charting an interdisciplinary approach to healing the corrosive memories of painful pasts. Taking a cue from the empirical expositions of post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide Rwanda, the Congo Wars, and post-Red Terror Ethiopia, this volume brings together coherent healing approaches to deal with traumatic memory.

Autor

Mohammed Girma is international advocacy officer at the International Bible Advocacy Centre, visiting lecturer of intercultural studies at London School of Theology, and research associate at the University of Pretoria.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 From Painful Memory to Restorative NostalgiaChapter 2 Remembering to Forget, Forgetting to Remember: Memory, Trauma and Religious Imagination in AfricaChapter 3 “And I will heal their land”: The Role of the South African Faith Community in the Quest for Healing and ReconciliationChapter 4 Christian Churches in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Reconciliation and its LimitsChapter 5 Mirror of Memory: Some Thoughts on the Ethiopian Red TerrorChapter 6 “When the Foundations are Destroyed….” (Psalm 11:3): Lament, Healing, Social Repair and Political Reinvention in Eastern CongoChapter 7 The Cry of Rachel: African Women’s Reading of the Bible for HealingChapter 8 Ubuntu, Christianity and Two Kinds of ReconciliationChapter 9 The Intertwinement of Science and the Bible in the Healing of Traumatized Memories

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Co-Autor: Thaddeus Metz, Afe Adogame, Theodros Assefa, Schalk Botha, Musa Dube, Mohammed Girma, Emmanuel Katongole, Timothy Longman, Piet Meiring
• Vorwort: Rt Hon. Lord Paul Boateng
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Charts.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Africa • African Christians • African Culture • African Studies • Christianity • Ethiopia • Grief • indigenous African philosophy • Memory • Peaceful coexistence • Political Conflict • political crises • post-genocide Rwanda • post-Red Terror Ethiopia • Public theology • Reconciliation • Red Terror • Religious conflicts • Rwanda • social harmony • Trauma • trauma healing • Truth and Reconciliation • Ubuntu • violent political ideologies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7264-2 / 1498572642
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7264-4 / 9781498572644