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A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination

by Emmanuel Katongole

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Publisher Comments:

Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDSAfrica has endured some of the most horrific human tragedies of recent times. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement, however, suggests a powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest in Uganda. In A Future for Africa, Katongole wrestles with Africa's concrete and debilitating problems, including poverty, corruption, and tribalism, and then offers humanitarian and faith-filled solutions. The work fills a vacancy in the current debate about lasting solutions to Africa's problems and should be meaningful reading for scholars of ethics and religion alike.
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About the Author

Emmanuel M. Katongole is associate research professor of theology and world

Christianity in the Divinity School at Duke University and editor of African Theology Today. He is a Catholic priest of the Kampala Archdiocese, Uganda.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

 

Section One: Memory

 

1. Remembering Idi Amin: On Violence, Ethics, and Social Memory in Africa

2. AIDS, Condomization, and Christian Ethics

3. September 11th:  "Why Do They Hate Us So Much?"

 

Section Two:  Performance

 

4. Postmodern Illusions and Performances

5. Christianity, Tribalism, and the Rwanda Genocide

6. Kannungu and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda

 

Section Three:  Imagination

 

7. A Different World Right Here:  The Church Within African Theological Imagination

8. Of Faces of Jesus and The Poisonwood Bible

9. Racism:  Christian Resources Beyond Reconciliation

10. Hauerwasian Hooks, Stories, and the Social Imagination of "The Next Christendom"

 

Bibliography

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781589661028
Subtitle:
Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination
Author:
Katongole, Emmanuel
Author:
Katongole, Emmanuel M.
Publisher:
University of Scranton Press
Subject:
Church History
Subject:
Religion - Church History
Subject:
Theology
Subject:
Christianity and culture
Subject:
Christianity - History - General
Subject:
Africa - General
Subject:
REL102000
Subject:
Africa Church history 20th century.
Subject:
Church and social problems -- Africa.
Edition Description:
1
Series:
African Theology Today
Series Volume:
2
Publication Date:
September 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Pages:
300
Dimensions:
9.00 x 6.00 in
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