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A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination.(Brief article)(Book review)
The Christian Century
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August 22, 2006
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A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination.
By Emmanuel M. Katongole. University of Scranton Press, 300 pp., $25.00 paperback.
Katongole's essays show the promise of taking the work of Stanley Hauer-was (about whom this Ugandan Catholic priest has written a book) to Africa. The church is growing rapidly on that continent, yet the author stresses the church's inability to embody a specific social reality with concrete practices of peace. Instead, the church usually sees ...
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