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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Emmanuel Katongole is quietly but beautifully introducing a new methodology for doing theology in Africa.” —Stan Chu Ilo, author of A Poor and Merciful Church
"Katongole compellingly demonstrates that African theologians and the church must revisit the conversation on identity and the contours of Christian conversion to reimagine solutions to the continent’s perennial ecological and political challenges." —Reading Religion
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Who Are My People? Philosophical and Theological Reflections
1. On Being African
2. On Being an African Christian
Part Two: Love’s Invention in the Midst of Africa’s Violent Modernity
3. Ethnic Violence and the Reinvention of Identity:
4. Religious Violence and the Reinvention of Politics:
5. Ecological Violence and the Reinvention of Land
Conclusion
Afterword: On Being Some Sort of Catholic: A Sermon
Reference Notes
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