The sacrifice of Africa
Subtitle: a political theology for Africa
By: Emmanuel Katongole
Series: The Eerdmans Ekklesia series
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780802862686
Subjects: Christianity and politics; Political theology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: On being saved from King Leopold's ghost; title: I. Sacrificing Africa. Saving Africa : the reticence of Christianity; title: Reimagining social ethics in Africa : from skills to stories; title: Performing Africa : stories, politics, and the social imagination of Africa; title: II. Daring to invent the future. Daring to invent the future : the madness of Thomas Sankara; title: "A different world right here" : Jean-Marc Éla and reimagining the church in Africa; title: Things fall apart : Christianity, power, violence, and marginality; title: III. The sacrifice of Africa. Fighting tribalism "in a small way" : Bishop Paride Taban and the Kuron Peace Village; title: The sacrifice of Africa : Angelina Atyam and the politics of forgiveness; title: Gathering the fragments of a new future : Maggy Barankitse and Maison Shalom.