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Mohammed Girma is international advocacy officer at the International Bible Advocacy Centre, visiting lecturer of intercultural studies at London School of Theology, and research associate at the University of Pretoria.
List of contents
Chapter 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
About the author
Edited by Mohammed Girma - Foreword by Rt Hon. Lord Paul Boateng - Contributions by Mohammed Girma; Afe Adogame; Piet Meiring; Timothy Longman; Theodros Assefa; Emmanuel Katongole; Musa Dube; Thaddeus Metz and Schalk Botha
Summary
Mohammed Girma is international advocacy officer at the International Bible Advocacy Centre, visiting lecturer of intercultural studies at London School of Theology, and research associate at the University of Pretoria.
