Title: Introduction: CHRISTIANITY AND CONFLICT IN AFRICA
Abstract: Abstract Christianity is growing faster in sub‐Saharan Africa than anywhere in the world, and African churches have varied in their ability to respond effectively to hopes for peace and restoration within conflict and post‐conflict situations on the continent. Churches are important institutions within Africa’s characteristically weak civil society sector; their moral and social capital has contributed to the mediation of hostilities and movement toward peace and reconciliation. In other cases they have prioritized justice in ways that placed them directly at odds with the conflicting parties or have identified too closely with one or another party within the conflict. Keywords: AfricaChristianitycivil societyreconciliation and conflict resolution
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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