Philippe Denis – författare

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:

Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity efforts Examination of mission-to-church transitions and responses to apartheid within Lutheran denominations Critical assessment of unity initiatives including FELCSA, LUCSA, and joint theological education at LTI Analysis of the 1964 UELCSA and 1975 ELCSA formations and their impact on racial divisions within Lutheran churches Documentation of failed unity attempts and the 2008 collapse of unity talks with lessons for future efforts

This title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:

Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity efforts Examination of mission-to-church transitions and responses to apartheid within Lutheran denominations Critical assessment of unity initiatives including FELCSA, LUCSA, and joint theological education at LTI Analysis of the 1964 UELCSA and 1975 ELCSA formations and their impact on racial divisions within Lutheran churches Documentation of failed unity attempts and the 2008 collapse of unity talks with lessons for future efforts

This title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity effortsExamination of mission-to-church transitions and responses to apartheid within Lutheran denominationsCritical assessment of unity initiatives including FELCSA, LUCSA, and joint theological education at LTIAnalysis of the 1964 UELCSA and 1975 ELCSA formations and their impact on racial divisions within Lutheran churchesDocumentation of failed unity attempts and the 2008 collapse of unity talks with lessons for future effortsThis title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between April and July 1994? What prevented the churches' acceptance that they may have had some responsibility? And how should we account for the efforts made by other sectors of the churches to remember and commemorate the genocide and rebuild pastoral programmes? Drawing on interviews with genocide survivors, Rwandans in exile, missionaries and government officials, as well as Church archives and other sources, this book is the first academic study on Christianity and the genocide against the Tutsi to explore these contentious questions in depth, and reveals more internal diversity within the Christian churches than is often assumed. While some Christians, Protestant as well as Catholic, took risks to shelter Tutsi people, others uncritically embraced the interim government's view that the Tutsi were enemies of the people and some, even priests and pastors, assisted the killers. The church leaders only condemned the war: they never actually denounced the genocide against the Tutsi. Focusing on the period of the genocide in 1994 and the subsequent years (up to 2000), Denis examines in detail the responses of two churches, the Catholic Church, the biggest and the most complex, and the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, which made an unconditional confession of guilt in December 1996. A case study is devoted to the Catholic parish La Crête Congo-Nil in western Rwanda, led at the time by the French priest Gabriel Maindron, a man whom genocide survivors accuse of having failed publicly to oppose the genocide and of having close links with the authorities and some of the perpetrators. By 1997, the defensive attitude adopted by many Catholics had started to change. The Extraordinary Synod on Ethnocentricity in 1999-2000 was a milestone. Yet, especially in the immediate aftermath of the genocide, tension and suspicion persist.Fountain: Rwanda, Uganda

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between April and July 1994? What prevented the churches' acceptance that they may have had some responsibility? And how should we account for the efforts made by other sectors of the churches to remember and commemorate the genocide and rebuild pastoral programmes? Drawing on interviews with genocide survivors, Rwandans in exile, missionaries and government officials, as well as Church archives and other sources, this book is the first academic study on Christianity and the genocide against the Tutsi to explore these contentious questions in depth, and reveals more internal diversity within the Christian churches than is often assumed. While some Christians, Protestant as well as Catholic, took risks to shelter Tutsi people, others uncritically embraced the interim government's view that the Tutsi were enemies of the people and some, even priests and pastors, assisted the killers. The church leaders only condemned the war: they never actually denounced the genocide against the Tutsi. Focusing on the period of the genocide in 1994 and the subsequent years (up to 2000), Denis examines in detail the responses of two churches, the Catholic Church, the biggest and the most complex, and the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, which made an unconditional confession of guilt in December 1996. A case study is devoted to the Catholic parish La Crête Congo-Nil in western Rwanda, led at the time by the French priest Gabriel Maindron, a man whom genocide survivors accuse of having failed publicly to oppose the genocide and of having close links with the authorities and some of the perpetrators. By 1997, the defensive attitude adopted by many Catholics had started to change. The Extraordinary Synod on Ethnocentricity in 1999-2000 was a milestone. Yet, especially in the immediate aftermath of the genocide, tension and suspicion persist.Fountain: Rwanda, Uganda

With the end of apartheid and the exciting, but elusive, advent of a new nation, South Africa is witness to the emergence of a new generation of oral historians whose aim is to develop a broader, more inclusive and culturally sensitive understanding of the South African past. In a country still wounded by a legacy of racial discrimination, the retrieving of oral memories is a task more urgent than ever.""Oral History in a Wounded Country"" shows how the cultural, political, socio-economic and intellectual evolutions that gave birth to South Africa as we know it today affect the oral history process. It seeks to help practitioners, whether they use oral history as one technique among others to gain a better knowledge of the past, or envisage oral history as an academic discipline in its own right, to reflect critically on their practice and find better ways of handling the interview process. The challenge is to appreciate the complexity of South Africa's diverse histories, while being attentive to the dynamics of the interview and their effect on both interviewers' and interviewees' sense of identity.

This book uncovers the rarely spoken about history of race relations in a South African congregation of Roman Catholic religious women, which remains painful and contested to this day. A group of black sisters was compelled to leave the Newcastle Congregation of the Dominican Sisters in 1939 and join the newly founded Montebello Congregation, a congregation for black sisters only, without any consultation. A first group of black women had joined the Oakford Congregation in 1922. They eventually split from Oakford and constituted the Montebello Congregation in 1939. A second group of black women from Umsinsini on the South Coast of Natal had joined the Newcastle Congregation in 1927 and the following years. Philippe Denis traces the history of these two groups in the 1920s and 1930s. He argues that two types of racial segregation took place: institutional, with the gradual separation of the black sisters from the white sisters; and practical, for those who still lived in common but ate, slept and prayed separately. Denis uses rich archival sources from London, Rome, Johannesburg, Durban and Montebello, as well as interviews with black sisters who had heard the group from Newcastle telling their stories in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He also pays attention to the interface of racial and gender dynamics in the story.

" Un seul événement peut changer la manière dont on se représente soi-même et avec laquelle on s''engage dans l''existence. Alors, une boîte à mémoire peut modifier une évolution qui paraissait fatale mais qui plus tard peut devenir dans la mémoire un moment douloureux de l''histoire qui n''empêche pas une reprise de développement résilient. " (Boris Cyrulnik).L''importance du travail de mémoire n''a jamais semblé aussi décisive en Afrique qu''aujourd''hui pour surmonter les effets de décennies de discrimination, d''abus et de mauvaise gouvernance. L''épidémie du sida et les problèmes de pauvreté, de chômage et d''abus sexuels qui y sont associés assombrissent davantage encore le tableau. Mais il ne faudrait pas se décourager. Pour autant qu''elles reçoivent le soutien et les encouragements nécessaires, des personnes en situation de deuil, de traumatisme ou de vulnérabilité peuvent développer de la résilience, apprenant ainsi comment s''adapter plus harmonieusement à leur environnement.C''est le cas en particulier des enfants, qui sont les principaux bénéficiaires du Programme des boîtes de la mémoire établi depuis quelques années à l''université du KwaZulu-Natal en Afrique du Sud. La méthodologie présentée dans ce livre propose un cadre dans lequel un travail de mémoire peut être réalisé dans un climat d''écoute et de respect au profit des personnes concernées. Les souvenirs des familles sont placés dans une boîte de la mémoire a qui contient le texte du récit familial raconté par les adultes en présence des enfants et d''autres objets rappelant les absents. D''autres formes de travail de mémoire sont menées lors de sessions pour enfants en deuil ou en situation de vulnérabilité. Les auteurs du livre sont des membres ou des associés du Centre Sinomlando d''histoire orale et de travail de mémoire en Afrique, un centre de recherche et de développement affilié à l''école de religion et de théologie de l''université du KwaZulu-Natal.

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In 1611 Edmond Richer, the syndic of the Faculty of Theology of Paris, published a short but incisive defence of the conciliarist doctrine under the title De ecclesiastica et politica potestate. He claimed that this doctrine had been almost uninterruptedly followed by the University of the Paris since the time of the Council of Constance in the early 15th century. Within two years, at least six Latin, French or bilingual editions of the treatise saw the light as well as an English and a Dutch translation. The book was condemned at a meeting of the French bishops in March 1612 and its author was dismissed from his position of syndic of the Faculty of Theology a few months later. He withdrew from public life but remained influential. He continued to write in defence of the conciliarist doctrine and the so-called liberties of the Gallican Church until his death in 1631. He vehemently opposed Cardinal Bellarmine''s doctrine of the indirect power of popes in temporal matters but never subscribed to the doctrine of the divine power of kings. Most of his books were published posthumously.Philippe Denis retraces Edmond Richer''s career and examines his ecclesiological and political thinking. Without taking all the syndic''s opinions at face value, this volume commits itself to taking seriously Richer''s declared intention, which was to vindicate the teaching of the School of Paris and that of Jean Gerson in particular. Philippe Denis places the heated, sometimes aggressive, debates between Richer and his adversaries in the context of a double progression: that of the doctrine of an absolute monarchy, a form of government which had been developing since the troubles of the League, and that of the Ultramontane ideas, often disputed but supported with growing vigour, in France and elsewhere, in the context of the reception of the Council of Trent.Philippe Denis presents the English translation of his book originally published in French (Editions du Cerf in Paris, 2014).