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389 position and supported the oppressed Hutu majority in its social uprising of 1959-1961. But the heart of the problem, the ideological racist interpre- tation of ethnic stratification, remained unchanged. The involvement of the Church in the political regime which excluded the Tutsi for a great deal of having powerful positions, made it impossible for the Church to work on healing and reconciliation after the Rwandan independence of 1961. In 1990 Tutsi had fled the country, in 1995 they returned with an army, thus starting a civil war. It is true that the Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders acted as mediators between the parties, sometimes even successfully, but they did not touch the origin of the conflict: the ideological interpretation of the ethnic differences. This book gives a convincing interpretation of the Church history of Rwanda in the 20th century, with very interesting original material on the crucial period of 1990-1994, and a well balanced interpretation of the strength and weaknesses of the Catholic and Protestant church leadership in that period. Less convincing is his account of the early missionary period in the beginning of the 20th century as the author had only access to secondary material. A
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Published: Jan 1, 2002
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