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Emmanuel Katongole

Rank

Associate Professor

Fields

World Religions and World Church

Education

Emmanuel Katongole earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain and a diploma in theology and religious studies from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Research and Teaching Interests

Katongole is an expert in the study of Africa, the theology of reconciliation and lament, and Catholicism in the global South.

Biography

Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest, has served as associate professor of theology and world Christianity at Duke University, where he was the founding co-director of the Duke Divinity School’s Center for Reconciliation.

He is the author of books on the Christian social imagination, the crisis of faith following the genocide in Rwanda, and Christian approaches to justice, peace, and reconciliation. His most recent book is The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa.

 

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