Religion, Social Memory and Conflict [electronic resource] : The Massacre of Bojayá in Colombia /
Oyola, Sandra Milena Rios.author.
This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights.
Social memory in post-atrocity contexts -- Religion, emotions and memory after atrocity -- The conflict in Colombia and Chocó -- Religious peacebuilding in Chocó -- Multiple memories of the massacre of Bojayá  -- Religious emotions and social memory after the massacre -- Funerary rituals as resistance and memorialisation -- Religious peacebuilding and transitional justice from below.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Religion and sociology.
Peace.
Criminology.
Political science.
Crime and Society.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Religion and Society.
Peace Studies.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Political Science.