The Healing of Memories : African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma.

Cover -- The Healing of Memories -- The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Making Sense of Memory -- Chapter 1 -- From Painful Memories to Restorative Nostalgia -- Memory: What Is It? -- Decoding from Adam: A Christian Alternative -- Healing: A Restorative Nostalgia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- Remembering to Forget, Forgetting to Remember -- The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting -- Historicizing and Deconstructing Indigenous African Epistemologies -- Memory, Trauma, and African Religious Cultures -- The Rwandan Story -- Bibliography -- The Past that has Not Passed -- Chapter 3 -- "And I will heal their land" -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) -- Religion and Reconciliation in a Secular South Africa -- Defining Reconciliation -- PAPER CHURCHES? REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN FAITH COMMUNITY CALLED TO THE PODIUM -- Faith Communities as Agents of Oppression -- Faith Communities as Victims of Oppression -- Faith Communities as Opponents of Apartheid -- The Role of Faith Communities in South Africa's Transition -- "And I Will Heal Their Land" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Christian Churches in Post-Genocide Rwanda -- Christian Churches in the Rwandan Genocide -- The Changing Post-Genocide Religious Landscape -- Churches and Reconciliation -- More of the Same in Church-State Relations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Mirror of Memory -- The Ethiopian Red Terror as Mirror of Memory -- Memory of Sacrificed Bodies -- Mirror to the Political Body -- Mirror to the Ecclesial Body -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- "When the Foundations are Destroyed" (Psalm 11:3)* -- "When the Foundations are Destroyed" -- Laments.

Counseling and Trauma Healing -- Social Repair -- Political Reinvention: A New Social Imaginary -- Conclusion: "When the Foundations are Destroyed" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Resources for Healing -- Chapter 7 -- The Cry of Rachel -- A MultiLayered Context of Traumatic Processes -- Decolonizing Trauma Theory -- Religion and Expanded Postcolonial Trauma Theory -- Birthing Life in the Midst of Death -- HIV/AIDS Trauma and African Women's Biblical Hermeneutics and Healing -- Storytelling: African Women's Biblical Hermeneutics and Healing -- A luta Continua Hermeneutical Journeys -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- Ubuntu, Christianity, and Two Kinds of Reconciliation -- An Ubuntu Ethic -- Reconciling To and Reconciling With -- Concluding Remarks on Ubuntu's Contribution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- The Intertwinement of Science and the Bible in the Healing of Traumatized Memories -- Trauma: An Unraveling Experience -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This 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.

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