Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches?(Book Review)

From: International Journal on World Peace | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

GENOCIDE IN RWANDA: COMPLICITY OF THE CHURCHES?

Carol Rittner RSM, John K. Roth and Wendy Whitworth, eds.

St. Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House (an Aegis Book), 2004

336 pp., paper, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index, $18.95

There have been a number of very fine books written about genocide in Rwanda, but, to the best of my knowledge, no book explores as well or as comprehensively the highly important question of the role of religion and the churches in that terrible series of events as does Genocide in Rwanda. This is an indispensable book for anyone seeking to ...

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