Culture, religion, and the reintegration of female child soldiers in northern Uganda [electronic resource] / edited by Bård Mæland. - New York : Peter Lang, c2010. - xiv, 314 p. : ill. - Bible & theology in Africa, v. 10 1525-9846 ; . - Bible and theology in Africa ; v. 10. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Culture, religion, and the reintegration of female child soldiers in Northern Uganda / Where are the research gaps? Reviewing literature on former girl soldiers' reintegration in the African context / Negotiated identities : the discourse on the role of child soldiers in the peace process in Northern Uganda / Constrained but not choiceless : on moral agency among child soldiers / The dynamics of children associated with armed forces and challenges of building peace in Uganda / Domesticating the bush / The Acholi worldview : why rituals are important for the reintegration of formerly recruited girls in Northern Ugana / 'The girls is the core of life' : social reintegration, communal violence, and the sacred in Northern Uganda / Stigma as encountered by female returnees and the role of the church in Northern Uganda / 'I had no idea you cared about me' : empowerment of vulnerable mothers in the context of reintegration / Women and the war in Northern Uganda : a theological reflection on the dignity of a woman in the reintegration process / "The Lord destroyed the cities and everyone who lived in them" : the Lord's Resistance Army's use of the Old Testament Sodom/Gomorrah narrative / Killing children with God's permission? The rhetoric of retaliation in Psalm 193 / Women and war in Northern Uganda and ancient Israel : the interpretative role of academia / Authentic reading of the Bible / Moral principles and participation in practice : ethical and methodological issues in research on formerly recruited children / Are psychological interventions for war-affected children justified? / Interviewing formerly abducted children as informants in research : some methodological and ethical considerations / The interaction between interviewees and interviewers : perspectives from religious studies / Bård Mæland -- Milfrid Tonheim -- Tor Arne Berntsen -- Bård Mæland -- Deusdedit Nkurunziza -- Chris Coulter -- Christine Mbabzi Mpyangu -- Fiona Shanahan and Angela Veale -- Emeline Ndossi -- Miranda Worthen, Susan McKay, Angela Veale, and Michael Wessells -- Therese Tinkasiimire -- Helen Nkabala Nambalirwa -- Marta Høyland Lavik -- Knut Holter -- Magnar Kartveit -- Kjetil Fretheim -- Ragnhild Dydbahl, Nermina Kravic and Kishor Shrestha -- Thor Strandenæs -- Gerd Marie Ådna.


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Lord's Resistance Army.


Children and war--Uganda.
Child soldiers--Uganda.
Women soldiers--Uganda.
Soldiers--Rehabilitation--Uganda.


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