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Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda by Phillip A. Cantrell II
2022 | ISBN: 0299335100 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 7.5 MB
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.