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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewWhen suffering occurs, theological interpretations of why persons suffer often exacerbate traumatic reality. We do this in unearned intimacy and contrived happy endings. Girma Mohammed’s edited volume guides the reader to much more helpful wisdom in that human cultures and societies need not perpetuate traumatic reality; rather, we can begin to move toward flourishing. Here, in this book, we gain such wisdom from the African context for how to move consistently toward healing and costly reconciliation. -- Rev. Michael Battle, Herbert Thompson Chair of Church and Society, Director of the Desmond Tutu Center, General Theological Seminary
Table of ContentsChapter 1 From Painful Memory to Restorative Nostalgia Chapter 2 Remembering to Forget, Forgetting to Remember: Memory, Trauma and Religious Imagination in Africa Chapter 3 “And I will heal their land”: The Role of the South African Faith Community in the Quest for Healing and Reconciliation Chapter 4 Christian Churches in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Reconciliation and its Limits Chapter 5 Mirror of Memory: Some Thoughts on the Ethiopian Red Terror Chapter 6 “When the Foundations are Destroyed….” (Psalm 11:3): Lament, Healing, Social Repair and Political Reinvention in Eastern Congo Chapter 7 The Cry of Rachel: African Women’s Reading of the Bible for Healing Chapter 8 Ubuntu, Christianity and Two Kinds of Reconciliation Chapter 9 The Intertwinement of Science and the Bible in the Healing of Traumatized Memories
