Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

Author: Timothy Longman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0521191394

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This book studies the role of Christian churches in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Timothy Longman's research shows that Rwandan churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and engaged in ethnic politics, making them a center of struggle over power and resources. He argues that the genocide in Rwanda was a conservative response to progressive forces that were attempting to democratize Christian churches.

Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

Author: Timothy Longman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-09-07

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1139479539

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Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national- and local-level research to argue that Rwanda's churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and played ethnic politics. Comparing two local Presbyterian parishes in Kibuye before the genocide demonstrates that progressive forces were seeking to democratize the churches. Just as Hutu politicians used the genocide of Tutsi to assert political power and crush democratic reform, church leaders supported the genocide to secure their own power. The fact that Christianity inspired some Rwandans to oppose the genocide demonstrates that opposition by the churches was possible and might have hindered the violence.

Mirror to the Church
Mirror to the Church

Author: Emmanuel Katongole

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2009-05-26

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 031056316X

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We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt these patterns of brokenness But Rwanda also brings us to a place of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda’s genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of Christ—a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel.

The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches

Author: Philippe Denis

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1847012906

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Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.

From Red Earth
From Red Earth

Author: Denise Uwimana

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780874869842

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A hundred days of carnage, twenty-five years of rebirth--Provided by publisher.

Left to Tell
Left to Tell

Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2014-04-07

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1401944329

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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.

Survivors
Survivors

Author: Donald E. Miller

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-02-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0520219562

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"A superb work of scholarship and a deeply moving human document. . . . A unique work, one that will serve truth, understanding, and decency."—Roger W. Smith, College of William and Mary

Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Author: Timothy Longman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1107017998

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A critical exploration of the steps taken to promote peace, reconciliation and justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

Rwanda Before the Genocide
Rwanda Before the Genocide

Author: J. J. Carney

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0190612371

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Rwanda Before the Genocide analyzes the intersection of ethnic discourse, Rwandan politics, and Catholic social teaching during the critical final decade of Belgian colonial rule, exploring the many-threaded roots of the ethnic and political mythos that culminated with the 1994 genocide.

The Theology of Reconciliation
The Theology of Reconciliation

Author: Colin E. Gunton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2003-05-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0567035964

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This collection of essays edited by Colin Gunton provides a broad treatment of the theological doctrine of reconciliation. The latest addition to the King's College Systematic Theology Series. The papers are designed to constitute a broad treatment of the subject, including contributions on scripture, ethics and the church, as well as a bearing of other theological topics - Trinity, Christology - on the central question. There is an introduction by the editor, who also contributes a closing piece in which the central questions arising in the book are addressed. The contributors to this volume include leading theologians from Europe and America: Colin Gunton, Christoph Schwöbel, Douglas A. Campbell, Douglas Farrow, Murray Rae, John Webster, Sue Patterson, and Robert W. Jensen.