The African Christian responses to politically induced trauma Mohammed Girma editor. text bibliography mdu New York Lexington Books c2018 2018 monographic eng

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xiv, 193 p ; 22 cm. 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. edited by Mohammed Girma. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 HN780.Z9 AFR 261.8096 Hea 2018 Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018 (DLC) 2018018915 9781498572637 (hpb) : 2018025536 DLC 200127 20250503185853.0 20512516 eng