Religion, social memory, and conflict
Subtitle: the massacre of Bojayá in Colombia
By: Sandra Milena Rios Oyola
Series: Palgrave studies in compromise after conflict
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137461834
Subjects: Collective memory; Reconciliation; Church and social problems; Peace-building; Social justice; Religious life and customs; Religion and politics; Massacres; Memory; Social conditions; Catholic Church; History
Description: "The field of transitional justice and reconciliation considers social memory to be an important mechanism for acknowledging the violation of victims' rights and a step toward building peace. Societies in conflict, such as Colombia, challenge our current understanding of using memory in the construction of social peace processes, which in turn question the impossibility of forgiving violence that is still to come. Drawing on original ethnographical research, Rios analyses strategies of memorialization after the massacre of Bojayá, Colombia, as an arena of political contention but also of grassroots resistance to persistent and diverse forms of violence. The book focuses on the work of the local grassroots Catholic Church and of the victims' association ten years after the massacre of Bojayá. It explores the role of religion in the management of victims' emotions and in supporting claims of transitional justice from a grassroots perspective in a context of thin political transition"--From publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Social memory in post-atrocity contexts; title: Religion, emotions and memory after atrocity; title: The conflict in Colombia and Chocó; title: Religious peacebuilding in Chocó; title: Multiple memories of the massacre of Bojayá; title: Religious emotions and social memory after the massacre; title: Funerary rituals as resistance and memorialisation; title: Religious peacebuilding and transitional justice from below.