The healing of memories : African Christian responses to politically induced trauma - Mohammed Girma (New York.: : Lexington Books, 2018)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Political violence -- Africa -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Political violence -- Africa -- Psychological aspects; Psychic trauma -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Africa; Psychic trauma -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of -- Africa; Collective memory -- Africa