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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Girma, Mohammed, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity--Africa.

Political violence.

Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Collective memory.

Psychic trauma--Patients.

Psychic trauma.

Reconciliation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Psychological aspects.

Africa.

Political violence--Africa--Psychological aspects.

Psychic trauma--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Reconciliation--Religious aspects--Christianity--Africa.

Reconciliation.

Psychic trauma--Patients--Pastoral counseling of--Africa.

Collective memory--Africa.

Political violence--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 193 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Healing of memories

ISBN:

9781498572637

1498572634

9781498572651

1498572650

OCLC:

1038039886