Kenneth A. Loparo 
Religion, Social Memory and Conflict 
The Massacre of Bojayá in Colombia

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.

Table of Content

Introduction 1. Social Memory in Post-Atrocity Contexts 2. Religion, Emotions and Memory after Atrocity 3. The Conflict in Colombia and Chocó 4. Religious Peacebuilding in Chocó 5. Multiple Memories of the Massacre of Bojayá 6. Religious Emotions and Social Memory after the Massacre 7. Funerary Rituals as Resistance and Memorialisation 8. Religious Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice from Below Conclusion

About the author

Sandra Milena Rios Oyola is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University, Netherlands.