Religion, Social Memory and Conflict The Massacre of Bojay in Colombia [Hardcover]

This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights.Introduction 1. Social Memory in Post-Atrocity Contexts 2. Religion, Emotions and Memory after Atrocity 3. The Conflict in Colombia and Choc? 4. Religious Peacebuilding in Choc? 5. Multiple Memories of the Massacre of Bojay? 6. Religious Emotions and Social Memory after the Massacre 7. Funerary Rituals as Resistance and Memorialisation 8. Religious Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice from Below ConclusionSandra Milena Rios Oyola is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University, Netherlands.