Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with the 1994 genocide. In analyzing the contested legacy of Catholicism in Rwanda, Rwanda Before the Genocide focuses on a critical decade, from 1952 to 1962, when Hutu and Tutsi identities became politicized, essentialized, and associated with political violence. This study--the first English-language church history on Rwanda in over 30 years--examines the reactions of Catholic leaders such as the Swiss White Father André Perraudin and Aloys Bigirumwami, Rwanda's first indigenous bishop. It evaluates Catholic leaders' controversial responses to ethnic violence during the revolutionary changes of 1959-62 and after Rwanda's ethnic massacres in 1963-64, 1973, and the early 1990s. In seeking to provide deeper insight into the many-threaded roots of the Rwandan genocide, Rwanda Before the Genocide offers constructive lessons for Christian ecclesiology and social ethics in Africa and beyond.

Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era

History

Carney, J.J.

Africa

Oxford University Press

A devout Catholic politician assassinated by a capricious dictator. A Cardinal standing up for his people in the face of political repression. A priest leading his nation's constitutional revision. The "Mother Teresa of Uganda" transforming the lives of thousands of abandoned children. Two missionaries who founded the best community radio station in Africa. A peace activist who has amplified the voices of grassroots women in the midst of a brutal civil war.Such are the powerful stories in For God and My Country, a book that explores how seven inspiring leaders in Uganda's largest religious community have shaped the social and political life of their country. Drawing on extensive oral research, J. J. Carney analyzes how personal faith, theological vision, and Catholic social teaching have propelled these leaders to embody Vatican II's call for the Church to be a sign of communion and unity in the world. Readers will gain rich insight into Uganda's postcolonial politics and the history of one of Africa's most important Catholic communities. Each chapter closes with leadership lessons and reflection questions, making this an ideal text for classroom and parish adoption.

For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda (Studies in World Catholicism)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Cascade Books

On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport

During a 1980s Edmonton Oilers game, fans unveiled a banner claiming, “On the 8th 
day, God created Gretzky.” Intersections between religious belief and sporting 
participation are nothing new, where players, coaches, and fans are known to pray, 
cross themselves, and point to the heavens during a game. But what should be the 
relationship between sports and religious faith?\nOn the Eighth Day introduces the theology of sport from a Catholic standpoint. It 
wrestles with sport’s universal appeal, its rich symbolism, and its spiritual and moral 
characteristics. Sport is a place where embodied games can be sacramental; where 
traditions of the past speak to contemporary peoples; and where truth and justice are 
demanded in a world affected by sin.\nThe eighth day recalls the playful, re-creative work of God the Creator embodied 
in Christ’s resurrection. In this sense, this book marks out a “new day” in Christian 
attitudes toward modern sport and the continuing call to redeem sport in service of 
human flourishing. Comprehensive yet accessible, the book will engage thoughtful 
lay sports fans and academic students alike.

Hoven, Matt

Engel, Max T.

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda (Religion in Transforming Africa, 4)

Review\nThe book is an important work of intellectual history. It is likewise an important work for Uganda, helping to reveal the connections between controversies and contexts that are often seen and studied in isolation. ― Africa is a Country\nThe sources that Earle and Carney have been able to make use of here take us well beyond the traditional institutional archives used to examine religion and politics ... it is difficult to imagine a more complete biography of Kiwanuka being published. -- Journal of Ecclesiastical History\nThe authors [...] address oversimplifications that DP was "simply a sectarian 'Catholic Party' that sought to upend political Protestantism in the Kingdom of Buganda." [...] They make clear the fact that "Catholic politics constituted a dynamic moral economy of competing regional historiographies and disputations." -- Robert Madoi ― Monitor\nFor a few short months Benedicto Kiwanuka wielded power as Uganda's first prime minister. Most of his political career, however, was spent in the opposition; and at the end he was martyred by President Idi Amin. In this insightful biography, Earle and Carney draw from Kiwanuka's private library and illuminate the logic of his politics. Here we see Uganda's history as Kiwanuka saw it: as a drama that demanded both principled clarity and pragmatic flexibility. This book gives religious history an exciting new vocation, and greatly expands the scope and scale of political biography. -- Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan\nEarle and Carney's work sheds radically new understanding on the dramatic history of Uganda. It is centred on the Democratic Party and its staunch Catholic leader Ben Kiwanuka, who led the country to independence before being jailed by Obote and murdered by Idi Amin. Roman Catholics, the largest religious group in Uganda, have been politically discriminated against since the 1890s. This book challenges brilliantly Uganda's biased historical narrative and puts back "Contesting Catholics" where they belong, at the centre of the country's nation building. -- Henri Médard, Aix Marseille Université - Institut des Mondes Africains\nBy drawing on hitherto unused sources, and paying careful attention to regional complexities, Jay Carney and Jonathon Earle tell a new story of how religion inflected politics in twentieth century Uganda. Contesting Catholics is not merely about Catholic politics in the home of Africa's first canonized martyrs, rather it reframes our understanding of Ugandan history in the late colonial and postcolonial periods writ large. Moreover, the book delivers compelling insights about how to conceptualize the place of religion in politics in Africa and beyond. -- Elizabeth A. Foster, Tufts University\nThe authors of this book have mined personal papers, especially of their major subject, Benedicto Kiwanuka and other decolonization political actors in Uganda. They interviewed key witnesses of the late colonial and early post-colonial period, mastered local languages, including Luganda and Ateso, in order to read the literature first-hand. They also utilized archives in Uganda, Britain and the United States, in order to write an outstanding book on one of the leading Ugandan nationalists, Benedicto Kiwanuka, a leader of the Democratic Party who sought to build a united Uganda. I highly recommend this book for any student or researcher wishing to understand Uganda's religious and political history. -- Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo, Makerere University\nThis study throws a powerful searchlight on a critical population in Uganda struggling for political and social freedoms in the country immediately before and after Independence from Britain. -- Michael Twaddle, Institute of Commonwealth Studies\nThis carefully researched and elegantly written story of admirable twentieth-century Ugandan Catholic layman Benedicto Kiwanuka shows how the political party he led was thwarted in Uganda's early years. Regional and ethnic differences stretched its

Earle, Jonathon L.

James Currey

First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.\nAssassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, and his legacy is still divisive. On the eve of independence, he led the Democratic Party (DP), a national movement of predominantly Catholic activists, to end political inequalities and religious discrimination. Along the way, he became Uganda's first prime minister and first Ugandan chief justice. Earle and Carney show how Kiwanuka and Catholic activists struggled to create an inclusive vision of the state, a vision that resulted in relentless intimidation and extra-judicial killings. Focusing closely on the competing Catholic projects that circulated throughout Uganda, this book offers new ways of thinking about the history of democratic thought, while pushing the study of Catholicism in Africa outside of the church and beyond the gaze of missionaries. Drawing on never before seen sources from Kiwanuka's personal papers, the authors upend many of the assumptions that have framed Uganda's political and religious history for over sixty years, as well as repositioning Uganda's politics within the global arena.\nFountain: Uganda

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Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era

Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era

For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda (Studies in World Catholicism)

On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport

On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda (Religion in Transforming Africa, 4)

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda (Religion in Transforming Africa, 4)