Religion played an important role in the Rwandas 1994 genocide, but it is also playing a significant role in Rwandas recovery. Using a mixed methods approach, this dissertation inquires about the role of religious beliefs, religious social contacts, and religious organizations in promoting reconciliation after the genocide. Religious beliefs and values have laid the groundwork for hope and action for many people. Individuals rely on religious values, religious friends, and religious organizations for psychological support, vital economic assistance, and as means to reassert their personhood and membership in community. Religious organizations have developed religious understandings of peace as well as programs to respond to individual and community needs. These individual and organizational efforts are quantitatively and qualitatively linked to a variety of positive post-conflict outcomes. The role of religion in working toward peace in Rwanda is limited, however, as the countrys government has created a powerful state apparatus which discursively defines the genocide, peace, and reconciliation in ways which restrict the range of religious action.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-01302013-163238 |
| Date | 27 March 2013 |
| Creators | Bazuin, Joshua Theodore |
| Contributors | C Melissa Snarr, Paul W Speer, Paul R Dokecki, James Curtis Fraser |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-01302013-163238/ |
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