Research Catalog

Title

Genocide in Rwanda : complicity of the churches? / edited by Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, Wendy Whitworth.

Publication

Newark, Notts., U.K. : Aegis ; St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Rittner, Carol, 1943-
• Rittner, Carol, 1948-
• Roth, John K.
• Whitworth, Wendy.

Description

xiii, 319 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

• Ethnic relations > Christianity
• Genocide > Christianity
• Genocide > Rwanda
• Rwanda > Atrocities. > Civil War, 1994
• Rwanda > Ethnic relations
• Rwanda > Religious aspects > Civil War, 1994

Genre/Form

• Kongress.
• London (2003)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-298) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: The church and power -- Religion and the Rwandan genocide : some preliminary considerations / Hubert G. Locke -- Genocide in Rwanda 1994 : an Anglican perspective / Roger W. Bowen -- The church and the genocide in Rwanda / Octave Ugirashebuja -- The church and power : responses to genocide and massive human rights abuses in comparative perspective / Jerry Fowler -- Part II: The church and people -- The failure to confront evil : a collective responsibility, a personal reflection / Charles Petrie -- Rwanda, 100 days, 1994 : one perspective / Marie Julianne Farrington -- Memory never forgets miracles / Philippe Gaillard -- The church and the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 : a personal view / Marie Césarie Mukarwego -- Part III: The church and responsibility -- Genocide and the church in Rwanda : an interview with Tom O'Hara, C.S.C. / Carol Rittner -- The Christian churches and the construction of a genocidal mentality in Rwanda / Matthias Bjørnlund ... [et. al.] -- The Rwandan genocide and the British religious press : Roman Catholic, Anglican and Baptist / Margaret Brearley -- Churches as memorial sites : a photo essay / James M. Smith, Carol Rittner -- Part IV: The church and complicity? -- From Kibeho to Medjugorje : the Catholic Church and ethno-nationalist movements and regimes / Léon D. Saur -- The church's blind eye to genocide in Rwanda / Tom Ndahiro -- Two convicted Rwandan nuns / Martin (François) Neyt -- Why the churches were complicit : confessions of a broken-hearted Christian / David P. Gushee -- Epilogue: what should be remembered? / John K. Roth.

ISBN

1557788375 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004014772

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library