J J Carney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J J Carney |
| GIVEN NAMES | J J |
| FAMILY NAME | Carney |
| SIGNATURE | CARNEY J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5233-5713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
African Christian Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Apolo Kivebulaya
Global Catholicism: Diverse, Troubled, Holding Steady
The World Christian Encyclopedia, third edition, contributes significantly to our understanding of the contemporary Catholic Church, the world’s largest single Christian community. Although the percentage of Catholics has held steady over the past century, the church’s demographic center has shifted markedly from the Global North to the Global South. The encyclopedia’s rich country profiles reveal multiple key trends in current global Catholicism…
Benedicto Kiwanuka and Catholic Democracy in Uganda
In this article, I introduce Benedicto Kiwanuka (1922–72), Uganda’s first prime minister and most prominent modern Catholic politician, and explore how his religious and political sensibilities — especially his vision of democracy — intersected with Catholic thought and historical experience in Buganda and Uganda. Far from turning him into a “Catholic tribalist” looking to empower Catholics vis à vis other religious groups, Kiwanuka’s Catholic id…
Introduction to June 2020 Special Issue: Christianity and Politics in Twentieth‐Century Africa
The Politics of Ecumenism in Uganda, 1962-1986
In standard postcolonial political polemics in Uganda, colonial Anglican and Catholic churches have been castigated for fomenting and exacerbating Uganda's political divisions. These polemics overlook the growing ecumenical ties between Catholic and Anglican leaders that began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1980s. In particular, the shared experience of political oppression forged solidarity between erstwhile Catholic and Anglican rival…
The People Bonded Together by Love: Eucharistic Ecclesiology and Small Christian Communities in Africa
Building a Catholic Kingdom in Central Africa, 1900–1950
The second chapter considers the roots and early history of Rwanda’s Catholic missions. Particular attention is paid to the founder of the White Fathers, Charles Lavigerie, and to the late 19th-century Catholic missions in Rwanda’s neighbor Buganda. The heart of the chapter narrates the first fifty years of Rwanda’s Catholic history. This period witnessed the entrenchment of German and later Belgian colonial rule. Despite their support by both co…
Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era
Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda’s most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, church leaders have been critiqued for their perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse, violence, and political corruption that culminated with the 1994 genocide. In analyzing the contested legacy of Catholicism in Rwanda, Rwanda Before the Genocide focuses on a critical decade, from 1952 to 1962, when Hutu and Tutsi identit…
Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa
Journal Article Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa Get access Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa. Edited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 299pp. $30.00. J. J. Carney J. J. Carney Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journa…
Far from having unity, we are tending towards total disunity’: The Catholic Major Seminary in Rwanda, 1950–62
As the final training ground for local African men preparing for the Roman Catholic priesthood, Nyakibanda Major Seminary produced record numbers of priests in the 1940s and 1950s, symbolising the growth and vitality of the mid-century Rwandan Catholic Church. Between 1952 and 1962, however, the seminary experienced waves of seminarian withdrawals as interracial, nationalist and ethnicist tensions divided the Nyakibanda community. Nyakibanda's la…
Beyond Tribalism: The Hutu-Tutsi Question and Catholic Rhetoric in Colonial Rwanda
Post genocide commentaries on colonial Rwandan history have emphasized the centrality of the Hamitic Hypothesis in shaping Catholic leaders' sociopolitical imagination concerning Hutu and Tutsi identities. For most scholars, the resulting racialist interpretation of Hutu and Tutsi categories poisoned Rwandan society and laid the groundwork for postcolonial ethnic violence. This paper challenges the simplicity of this standard narrative. Not only …
Roads to Reconciliation: An Emerging Paradigm of African Theology
The heart of contemporary African Christian theology is the notion of “reconciliation.” Contextualizing this movement, the article begins by surveying the three major theological paradigms—inculturation, liberation, and reconstruction—that shaped post‐colonial African theology. Drawing on the writings of Desmond Tutu, John Rucyahana and Emmanuel Katongole and three grassroots reconciliation ministries, I delineate four principles of African recon…
Early Spanish Imperialism
Benedicto Kiwanuka and Catholic Democracy in Uganda
In this article, I introduce Benedicto Kiwanuka (1922–72), Uganda’s first prime minister and most prominent modern Catholic politician, and explore how his religious and political sensibilities — especially his vision of democracy — intersected with Catholic thought and historical experience in Buganda and Uganda. Far from turning him into a “Catholic tribalist” looking to empower Catholics vis à vis other religious groups, Kiwanuka’s Catholic id…
The Politics of Ecumenism in Uganda, 1962-1986
In standard postcolonial political polemics in Uganda, colonial Anglican and Catholic churches have been castigated for fomenting and exacerbating Uganda's political divisions. These polemics overlook the growing ecumenical ties between Catholic and Anglican leaders that began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1980s. In particular, the shared experience of political oppression forged solidarity between erstwhile Catholic and Anglican rival…
Beyond Tribalism: The Hutu-Tutsi Question and Catholic Rhetoric in Colonial Rwanda
Post genocide commentaries on colonial Rwandan history have emphasized the centrality of the Hamitic Hypothesis in shaping Catholic leaders' sociopolitical imagination concerning Hutu and Tutsi identities. For most scholars, the resulting racialist interpretation of Hutu and Tutsi categories poisoned Rwandan society and laid the groundwork for postcolonial ethnic violence. This paper challenges the simplicity of this standard narrative. Not only …
Early Spanish Imperialism
Roads to Reconciliation: An Emerging Paradigm of African Theology
The heart of contemporary African Christian theology is the notion of “reconciliation.” Contextualizing this movement, the article begins by surveying the three major theological paradigms—inculturation, liberation, and reconstruction—that shaped post‐colonial African theology. Drawing on the writings of Desmond Tutu, John Rucyahana and Emmanuel Katongole and three grassroots reconciliation ministries, I delineate four principles of African recon…
Far from having unity, we are tending towards total disunity’: The Catholic Major Seminary in Rwanda, 1950–62
As the final training ground for local African men preparing for the Roman Catholic priesthood, Nyakibanda Major Seminary produced record numbers of priests in the 1940s and 1950s, symbolising the growth and vitality of the mid-century Rwandan Catholic Church. Between 1952 and 1962, however, the seminary experienced waves of seminarian withdrawals as interracial, nationalist and ethnicist tensions divided the Nyakibanda community. Nyakibanda's la…
Beyond Tribalism: The Hutu-Tutsi Question and Catholic Rhetoric in Colonial Rwanda
Post genocide commentaries on colonial Rwandan history have emphasized the centrality of the Hamitic Hypothesis in shaping Catholic leaders' sociopolitical imagination concerning Hutu and Tutsi identities. For most scholars, the resulting racialist interpretation of Hutu and Tutsi categories poisoned Rwandan society and laid the groundwork for postcolonial ethnic violence. This paper challenges the simplicity of this standard narrative. Not only …
Building a Catholic Kingdom in Central Africa, 1900–1950
The second chapter considers the roots and early history of Rwanda’s Catholic missions. Particular attention is paid to the founder of the White Fathers, Charles Lavigerie, and to the late 19th-century Catholic missions in Rwanda’s neighbor Buganda. The heart of the chapter narrates the first fifty years of Rwanda’s Catholic history. This period witnessed the entrenchment of German and later Belgian colonial rule. Despite their support by both co…
Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era
Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda’s most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, church leaders have been critiqued for their perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse, violence, and political corruption that culminated with the 1994 genocide. In analyzing the contested legacy of Catholicism in Rwanda, Rwanda Before the Genocide focuses on a critical decade, from 1952 to 1962, when Hutu and Tutsi identit…
Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa
Journal Article Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa Get access Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa. Edited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 299pp. $30.00. J. J. Carney J. J. Carney Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journa…
The People Bonded Together by Love: Eucharistic Ecclesiology and Small Christian Communities in Africa
The Politics of Ecumenism in Uganda, 1962-1986
In standard postcolonial political polemics in Uganda, colonial Anglican and Catholic churches have been castigated for fomenting and exacerbating Uganda's political divisions. These polemics overlook the growing ecumenical ties between Catholic and Anglican leaders that began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1980s. In particular, the shared experience of political oppression forged solidarity between erstwhile Catholic and Anglican rival…
Benedicto Kiwanuka and Catholic Democracy in Uganda
In this article, I introduce Benedicto Kiwanuka (1922–72), Uganda’s first prime minister and most prominent modern Catholic politician, and explore how his religious and political sensibilities — especially his vision of democracy — intersected with Catholic thought and historical experience in Buganda and Uganda. Far from turning him into a “Catholic tribalist” looking to empower Catholics vis à vis other religious groups, Kiwanuka’s Catholic id…
Introduction to June 2020 Special Issue: Christianity and Politics in Twentieth‐Century Africa
Global Catholicism: Diverse, Troubled, Holding Steady
The World Christian Encyclopedia, third edition, contributes significantly to our understanding of the contemporary Catholic Church, the world’s largest single Christian community. Although the percentage of Catholics has held steady over the past century, the church’s demographic center has shifted markedly from the Global North to the Global South. The encyclopedia’s rich country profiles reveal multiple key trends in current global Catholicism…
African Christian Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Apolo Kivebulaya
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