James Jay Carney, PhD

Department

Theology

Position

Professor

Books

• Carney J. J, Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa - Chapter 35 [Book Chapter] 2024
• Carney J. J., Who Are My People? Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa 2023
• Pilarski Ahida Calderón, etal Daughters of wisdom 2023
• Pilarski Ahida Calderón, etal Daughters of wisdom 2023
• Carney J. J, etal On the eighth day 2022
• Hoven Matt, etal On the eighth day 2022
• Christian Interculture
  Carney J. J, “For You, Most Reverend Father, and for Our Archives” Recovering the Voice of Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami in Late Colonial Rwanda [Book Chapter] 2021
• Earle Jonathon L, etal Contesting Catholics 2021
• Carney J. J., Catholicism and the making of politics in central Mozambique, 1940-1986 2020
• Carney J. J, For God and my country 2020
• Carney J. J., Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa 2019
• Carney J. J, etal The surprise of reconciliation in the Catholic tradition 2018
• Celtic Myth in the 21st Century: The Gods and Their Stories in a Global Perspective
  Carney James, Psycho-Cosmology: Mental Mapping in Táin Bó Cuailnge [Book Chapter] 2018
• Carney J. J., 'The Bishop Is Governor Here': Bishop Nicholas Djomo and Catholic Leadership in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [Book Chapter] 2014
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, Success Breeds Restlessness, 1950–1955 [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, Contested Categories [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, The Catholic Church and Postcolonial Ethnic Violence [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, The Irruption of Hutu-Tutsi Tensions, 1956–1959 [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, The Catholic Church and Political Revolution in Rwanda, 1959–1962 [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, Building a Catholic Kingdom in Central Africa, 1900–1950 [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, Epilogue: Lessons from Rwanda [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, Contested Categories: A Brief History of “Hutu” and “Tutsi” [Book Chapter] 2013
• Rwanda Before the Genocide
  Carney J. J, Appendix II: Glossary [Book Chapter] 2013
• Carney James Jay, Rwanda before the genocide: Catholic politics and ethnic discourse in the late colonial era 2013
• Carney James, Beckett re-membered 2012
• Beckett Re-Membered: After the Century
  Carney James, The Buzzing of B: The Subject as Insect in Beckett's Molloy [Book Chapter] 2012
• Carney James, etal Essays in honour of James Patrick Carney 1999
• Carney James, Scottish verse 1998
• Carney James, Randall R. Dipert: 'Artifacts, Art Works, and Agency' (Book Review) 1994
• Carney James, etal Sages, saints, and storytellers 1989
• Blaithmaic Saint, etal The poems of Blathmac, son of Cu Brettan 1989
• Carney James, Medieval Irish lyrics 1985
• Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Celtic Studies
  Carney James, Early Irish Literature: The State of Research [Book Chapter] 1983
• Celtic Studies: Essays in Memory of Angus Matheson
  Carney James, Two Poems from Acallam na Senorach [Book Chapter] 1968
• Carney James, Medieval Irish Lyrics: Selected and Translated 1967
• Blaithmaic Saint, etal The poems of Blathmac, son of Cú Brettan 1964

Publications

• de la Ferriere Artaud, etal Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda 2025
• American Catholic studies
  Carney J. J, Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time by Petr Kratochvíl (review)
  136:2, p. 76 - 78 2025
• Schloesser Stephen, etal John T. McGreevy, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis 2024
• Religious studies review
  Carney J. J., African Christian Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Apolo Kivebulaya
  50:2, p. 297 - 299 2024
• Schloesser Stephen, etal Catholicism: A Global Historyfrom the French Revolution to Pope Francis 2024
• Theological studies (Baltimore)
  Carney J. J., The People Who Do All Things Together: Living Base Ecclesial Communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  85:2, p. 262 - 286 2024
• The Catholic historical review
  Schloesser Stephen, etal Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by John T. McGreevy (review)
  110:3, p. 559 - 573 2024
• Carney J, Book Review: Who Are My People? Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Emmanuel Katongole 2023
• Carney J. J., The genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches. Between grief and denial. By Philippe Denis. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xiv + 344 incl. 1 map and 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2022. £70. 978 1 84701 290 6 2023
• Carney J. J., Competing Catholicisms. The Jesuits, the Vatican and the making of postcolonial French Africa. By Jean Luc Enyegue sj. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xx + 301 incl. 18 figs and 1 map. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2022. £65. 978 1 84701 2023
• Carney J. J., The mission of Apolo Kivebulaya. Religious encounter and social change in the Great Lakes, c. 1865-1935 2022
• Carney J. J., Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda. By Phillip A. Cantrell II. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. xi + 223 pp. $79.95 hardcover 2022
• International bulletin of mission research
  Carney J. J., Global Catholicism: Diverse, Troubled, Holding Steady
  46:1, p. 25 - 34 2022
• Carney J. J., Religion, colonization and decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960 2022
• Carney J. J., Church, State and colonialism in southeastern Congo, 1890-1962 2020
• Journal of religious history
  Carney J. J., Benedicto Kiwanuka and Catholic Democracy in Uganda
  44:2, p. 212 - 229 2020
• Journal of religious history
  Carney James J., Introduction to June 2020 Special Issue: Christianity and Politics in Twentieth-Century Africa
  44:2, p. 147 - 148 2020
• Carney J. J., Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological Theology 2020
• Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture
  Carney James, Hard Truths and Comforting Fictions: Does Narrative Actually Construct Identity?
  3:1, p. 37 - 40 2019
• International bulletin of mission research
  Carney J. J., Modern Roman Catholic Mission and the Legacy of Uganda's Emmanuel Cardinal Nsubuga
  43:2, p. 159 - 168 2019
• Carney J. J., Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda 2018
• Fides et historia
  Carney J.J, MISSIONARY DISCOURSE AND RACIAL IMAGINATION IN COLONIAL RWANDA
  50:2, p. 66 2018
• Church history
  Carney J. J., The Politics of Ecumenism in Uganda, 1962-1986
  86:3, p. 765 - 795 2017
• Journal of Ecclesiastical History
  Carney James Jay, The Forgotten Martyrs? the Missionaries in the Storm of the Rebellion of the Simbas in the Congo in 1964-1966
  68:3, p. 669 - 671 2017
• Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
  Carney James Jay, Faithful Citizenship in the USA and Uganda: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Catholic Pastoral Letters on Politics
  14, p. - 2017
• Journal of Religion and Society
  Carney James Jay, From Categorization to Communion: Ethnic Identity and Catholic Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda, p. 189 - 201 2016
• Theological Studies
  Carney James Jay, A generation after genocide: Catholic reconciliation in Rwanda
  76:4, p. 785 - 812 2015
• International Bulletin of Missionary Research
  Carney James Jay, A Trinitarian Theology of Religions: An Evangelical Proposal
  39:2, p. 98 - 98 2015
• Pro Ecclesia
  Carney James Jay, The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa
  24:3, p. 403 - 407 2015
• Horizons
  Carney James Jay, Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
  41:1, p. 181 - 183 2014
• Modern Theology
  Carney James Jay, The People Bonded Together by Love: Eucharistic Ecclesiology and Small Christian Communities in Africa
  30:2, p. 300 - 318 2014
• National Catholic Reporter
  CARNEY JAMES J., etal A bishop and his people's plight
  50:12, p. 19 - 20 2014
• Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
  Carney James Jay, 14. The Danger of Description: The Ethnic Labeling of the Poor in Colonial Rwanda
  Supplement 10, p. 229 - 241 2014
• International Bulletin of Missionary Research
  Carney James Jay, Christianity, the Papacy, and Mission in Africa
  37:4, p. 236 - 236 2013
• Journal of Church & State
  Carney James Jay, Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa [Review]
  55:1, p. 149 - 151 2013
• Journal of Religion in Africa
  Carney James Jay, Beyond Tribalism: The Hutu-Tutsi Question and Catholic Rhetoric in Colonial Rwanda
  42:2, p. 172 - 202 2012
• Studies in World Christianity
  Carney James Jay, Far from having unity, we are tending towards total disunity: The Catholic Major Seminary in Rwanda, 1950-1962
  18:1, p. 82 - 102 2012
• International Bulletin of Missionary Research
  Carney James Jay, Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations
  36:2, p. 100 - 100 2012
• Canadian Journal of African Studies
  Carney James Jay, 'Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda' (book review)
  45:1, p. 173 - 176 2011
• Modern theology
  Carney J. J., ROADS TO RECONCILIATION: AN EMERGING PARADIGM OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY
  26:4, p. 549 - 569 2010
• Carney James, If You Don't Have Time to Read It 2004
• Carney James, Playing the POW card 1999
• Carney James, Book reviews -- Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View From Eternity (SUNY Series in Ethical Theory) by B. R. Tilghman 1992
• Éigse
  Carney James, THE DATING OF EARLY IRISH VERSE TEXTS
  19, p. 177 1982
• Éigse
  Carney James, Linking Alliteration: 'Fidrad Freccomail'
  18:2, p. 251 1981
• Éigse
  Carney James, ASPECTS OF ARCHAIC IRISH
  17, p. 417 1977
• Clogher record
  Carney James, Eochaidh Ó hEoghusa, Poet to the Maguires of Fermanagh
  3, p. 187 - 211 1975
• Studies (Dublin)
  Carney James, Society and the Bardic Poet
  62:247/248, p. 233 - 250 1973
• Ériu
  Bieler Ludwig, etal The Lambeth Commentary
  23, p. 1 - 55 1972
• Éigse
  Carney James, The So-called 'Lament of Creidhe'
  13:3, p. 227 1970
• Ériu
  Carney James, The Ó Cianáin Miscellany
  21, p. 122 - 147 1969
• Éigse
  Carney James, THE SO-CALLED 'LAMENT OF CRÉIDHE'
  13, p. 227 1969
• Éigse
  Carney James, NOTES ON EARLY IRISH VERSE
  13, p. 291 1969
• Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society
  I. D. Mac, etal Irish Texts Society, Cumann Na Scribheann Gaedhilge: Vol. XLVII. The Poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan, Together with the Gospel of Thomas and a Poem on the Virgin Mary
  15:4, p. 358 - 358 1964

Awards

• 2015 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize
  Awarded to the best book in East African studies published in 2014. The award was given to my book "Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era" (Oxford University Press, 2014).
  African Studies Association