Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I: The Genocide
1. Encountering the Genocide
2. How Did It Happen?
3. Orphan Memories
4. The Experience of Women
5. Coping after Genocide

PART II: Postgenocide Experiences
6. Trauma as Moral Rupture
7. A Holistic Model of Healing
8. Forgiveness
9. Justice and Reconciliation
10. Becoming Human Again

Appendix I: Methodology
Appendix II: Survey Results on Distress and Resilience
Beth E. Meyerowitz and Lauren C. Ng

Notes
References and Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Donald E. Miller is the Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and Director of Strategic Initiatives at USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of ten books, including Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement and Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium.

Lorna Touryan Miller is coauthor with Donald Miller of Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide and Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope. She is former director of the Office for Creative Connections in Pasadena, California.
 
Arpi Misha Miller completed her doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she focused on the transnational political activism of Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles. Currently she is involved in immigrant rights issues in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Reviews

“The authors offer valuable insights into psychological trauma and its link to loss of identity. . . .  Becoming Human Again is not an easy read but it is a worthwhile one; a journey through horror to healing.”
*New Internationalist*

“After a surfeit of literature on various aspects of Rwanda’s genocide, scholars might not expect such a useful and provocative recapitulation. This book is a pleasant surprise. . . . This analysis describes how many traumatized victims in Rwanda were helped in regaining their sense of being human after losing even that. Not only academic social scientists but, even more so, psychiatrists, counselors, and other professionals in the human services will benefit from this study.”
*CHOICE*