J.J. Carney is Assistant Professor of Theology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. His research and teaching interests engage the theological and historical dimensions of the Catholic experience in modern Africa. He has published articles in African Ecclesial Review, Modern Theology, Journal of Religion in Africa, and Studies in World Christianity.

Carney does an excellent job situating the late colonial period within Rwanda's broader history and explaining the complexities of the ethnic discourse in Rwanda.

• Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; I. Contested Categories: A Brief History of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" ; II. Building a Catholic Kingdom in Central Africa, 1900-1950 ; III. Success Breeds Restlessness, 1950-1955 ; IV. The Irruption of Hutu-Tutsi Tensions, 1956-1959 ; V. The Catholic Church & Political Revolution in Rwanda, 1959-1962 ; VI. The Catholic Church & Postcolonial Ethnic Violence ; VII. Epilogue: Lessons from Rwanda ; Appendix I: Timeline ; Appendix II: Glossary ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

J.J. Carney is Assistant Professor of Theology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. His research and teaching interests engage the theological and historical dimensions of the Catholic experience in modern Africa. He has published articles in African Ecclesial Review, Modern Theology, Journal of Religion in Africa, and Studies in World Christianity.

Carney does an excellent job situating the late colonial period within Rwanda's broader history and explaining the complexities of the ethnic discourse in Rwanda.

• Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; I. Contested Categories: A Brief History of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" ; II. Building a Catholic Kingdom in Central Africa, 1900-1950 ; III. Success Breeds Restlessness, 1950-1955 ; IV. The Irruption of Hutu-Tutsi Tensions, 1956-1959 ; V. The Catholic Church & Political Revolution in Rwanda, 1959-1962 ; VI. The Catholic Church & Postcolonial Ethnic Violence ; VII. Epilogue: Lessons from Rwanda ; Appendix I: Timeline ; Appendix II: Glossary ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

J.J. Carney is Assistant Professor of Theology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. His research and teaching interests engage the theological and historical dimensions of the Catholic experience in modern Africa. He has published articles in African Ecclesial Review, Modern Theology, Journal of Religion in Africa, and Studies in World Christianity.

Carney does an excellent job situating the late colonial period within Rwanda's broader history and explaining the complexities of the ethnic discourse in Rwanda.

• Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; I. Contested Categories: A Brief History of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" ; II. Building a Catholic Kingdom in Central Africa, 1900-1950 ; III. Success Breeds Restlessness, 1950-1955 ; IV. The Irruption of Hutu-Tutsi Tensions, 1956-1959 ; V. The Catholic Church & Political Revolution in Rwanda, 1959-1962 ; VI. The Catholic Church & Postcolonial Ethnic Violence ; VII. Epilogue: Lessons from Rwanda ; Appendix I: Timeline ; Appendix II: Glossary ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index