From Categorization to Communion: Ethnic Identity and Catholic Reconciliation in Post- Genocide Rwanda
The manipulation of collective identity has been a central theme in modern genocide. In the Rwandan context, postcolonial violence and the 1994 genocide were organized around the collective identities of "Hutu" and "Tutsi." This article examines four different interpretive school...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University
2016
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Journal of religion & society. Supplement
Année: 2016, Volume: 13, Pages: 189-201 |
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| Résumé: | The manipulation of collective identity has been a central theme in modern genocide. In the Rwandan context, postcolonial violence and the 1994 genocide were organized around the collective identities of "Hutu" and "Tutsi." This article examines four different interpretive schools of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" identities and offers a theological analysis of the potentials and pitfalls of "Christian identity" in the contemporary Rwandan context. Drawing on both written and oral sources, the author argues that the German theologian Johann-Baptist Metz's "memory of suffering" and the Catholic theological and pastoral commitment to "communion" can offer particular contributions to post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda. |
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| ISSN: | 1941-8450 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion & society. Supplement
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