Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Africa (1)
- Afrofuturism (1)
- Black panther (1)
- Burundi (1)
- Catholicism (1)
-
- Chadwick Boseman (1)
- Darfur (1)
- Enlightenment (1)
- Feminism (1)
- Gender (1)
- Genocide (1)
- Humanitarian crisis (1)
- Hutu (1)
- Letitia Wright (1)
- Martyrdom (1)
- Masculinity (1)
- Memory (1)
- Michael Jordan (1)
- Modernity (1)
- Peace (1)
- Power (1)
- Progress (1)
- Race (1)
- Religion (1)
- Ryan Coogler (1)
- Science (1)
- Scientific revolution (1)
- Sudan (1)
- Tutsi (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Africana Studies
Call For Papers: Special Issue - "Beyond Borders: People, Politics, Conflict, And Recovery In Darfur And Sudan"
The Journal of Social Encounters
No abstract provided.
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
Black Panther (2018) not only heralded a new future for representation in big-budget films but also gave an alternative vision of the past, one which recasts the Enlightenment within an African context. By going through its technological enlightenment in isolation from Western ideals and dominance, Wakanda opens a space for reflecting on alternate ways progress can—and still might—unfold. More specifically, this alternative history creates room for reimagining how modernity—with its myriad social, scientific, and religious paradigm shifts—could have negotiated questions of race, and, in turn, how race could have informed and redirected some of the lesser impulses of modernity. Similar …
Fraternity, Martyrdom And Peace In Burundi: The Forty Servants Of God Of Buta, Jodi Mikalachki
Fraternity, Martyrdom And Peace In Burundi: The Forty Servants Of God Of Buta, Jodi Mikalachki
Journal of Global Catholicism
During Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, students at Buta Minor Seminary were ordered at gunpoint to separate by ethnicity—Hutus over here, Tutsis over there! They chose instead to join hands and affirm their common identity as children of God. The forty students killed were quickly proclaimed martyrs of fraternity. Their costly solidarity defused the cry for reprisals and continues to inspire Burundians and others on the path of reconciliation. Drawing on fifty interviews with survivors, parents of martyrs, neighbors, religious leaders and other Burundian intellectuals, this essay examines how Burundian Catholics understand the significance of the Buta martyrdom to their …