Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda
Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda
by Phillip A. Cantrell II
University of Wisconsin Press, 2022 Cloth: 978-0-299-33510-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-33513-7 Library of Congress Classification BX5691.R95C36 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 283.67571
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
When Europe began colonizing Rwanda in the late nineteenth century, the Anglican Church played a significant and long-lasting role in controlling the colony through the Ruanda Mission. This informative volume shows how the church repeatedly aligned with the regime in power and failed to take account of its own history in fomenting ethnic tensions prior to the 1994 genocide. In recent years, the media has depicted Rwanda as a model of unity, development, and recovery, yet Phillip A. Cantrell II argues that not all is as it seems, as he takes a critical look at the church's complicity with authoritarian rule—from the Tutsi monarchy to the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Drawing from new archival materials as well as on-the-ground field research, Revival and Reconciliation is a Rwanda-centered account of the country's ecclesiastical and national historiography. Cantrell calls attention to the harms the postgenocide church risks doing should it continue to support false narratives about Rwanda's colonial and postcolonial past—with dangerous consequences for the future.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Phillip A. Cantrell II is an associate professor of world and African history at Longwood University. His main research area is East Central Africa during the colonial period.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 False Narratives of a Disputed Past: Precolonial Rwanda
2 History Intervenes: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Ruanda Mission
3 Growth, Revival, and Conflict: The Anglican Church through World War II
4 The Unravelling: The Ruanda Mission and Independence
5 Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church in Post-genocide Rwanda
Conclusions: History Faces the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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