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Article: Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and the Church in Africa.(Book Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- June 1, 2005
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HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURAL DIFFERENCE, AND THE CHURCH IN AFRICA. By Aquiline Tarimo, S.J. Morogoro, Tanzania: Salvatorianum, 2004. Pp. xii + 279. N.p.
The problems of Africa are as numerous as they are daunting: warfare within and between nations, economic underdevelopment and massive impoverishment, health crises aggravated by crumbling social infrastructures, environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and endemic corruption that sorely weaken civil society. This important book by an up-and-coming African theologian goes beyond a mere cataloguing of social problems; it attempts to search out and identify root causes and to suggest the philosophical and ...