A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination

By Emmanuel M. Katongole

Book Overview

Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDS--Africa has endured some of the most horrific human tragedies of recent times. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement, however, suggests a powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest in Uganda. In A Future for Africa, Katongole wrestles with Africa's concrete and debilitating problems, including poverty, corruption, and tribalism, and then offers humanitarian and faith-filled solutions. The work fills a vacancy in the current debate about lasting solutions to Africa's problems and should be meaningful reading for scholars of ethics and religion alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589661028
• ISBN13: 9781589661028
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Scranton Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"