Biography
Professor Emmanuel Katongole is the co-director of the Center of Reconciliation at the Divinity School – a center whose mission is to inspire, form, and support leaders, communities and congregations to think, feel, and live as ambassadors of reconciliation in a broken world. Katongole’s research interests cover a wide range of issues related to theology and violence especially in Africa. He examines the role of stories in the formation of political identity, the dynamics of social memory and the nature and role of Christian imagination, in which the church becomes the sign of hope amidst a history of violence and poverty. To this end, the growth of Christianity on the African continent not only has far reaching implications for world Christianity, it makes the challenge and task of Christian social imagination in Africa urgent. His published works include: Beyond Universal Reason, African Theology Today (2002), and more recently, A Future for Africa (2005). Katongole serves on the board of the International Academic Advisory Council of St. Augustine’s College of South Africa. A priest in the Roman Catholic Church, Fr. Katongole has served parishes in Uganda, Belgium, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and currently in Cary, North Carolina.
