Church-State Relations in Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Mission, Empire, and the Holy See

Author:   Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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9783030986124


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   27 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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This edited collection examines church-state relations in the European colonies in Africa during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters focus on the period stretching from the most agitated stages of the ‘scramble for Africa’ during the 1870s and 1880s, to the great wave of independence of African colonies in the 1950s and 60s, and culminates in a discussion of colonial legacies during its aftermath. The Church and the State, although often having conflicting goals and agendas, walked hand-in-hand throughout the entire colonial period, with ‘imperialism of the spirit’ being inconceivable without the groundwork of Catholic missionaries.  Exploring the major domains that determined the course of church-state relations in the colonies, the authors analyse relations between the Holy See and the colonial powers, and between national Catholic authorities and secular authorities, as well as the international order and socio-political developments in the metropoles.They argue that interactions between state and church in Africa’s European colonies were contingent upon the complex dynamics of interests that both secular and ecclesiastical entities endeavoured to preserve or promote. With a particular focus on the Belgian and Portuguese colonies in Africa, this book provides useful reading for scholars of European imperial history and ecclesiastical history. 

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Author:   Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.437kg
ISBN:  

9783030986124


ISBN 10:   3030986128
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   27 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1. Introduction: the Shifting Contexts of the Church-state Relations in the European Colonies (19th-20th centuries)Jairzinho Lopes Pereira Chapter 2. How Rome Managed Church-State Relations in Colonial Empires Claude Prudhomme Chapter 3. Missionaries, Colonial Government and the Labour Question in South Africa at the Turn of the 20th CenturyPhilippe Denis Chapter 4. Slavery and Other Atrocities in the Relations Between the Catholic Church and the Congo Free State (1889-1908) Jairzinho Lopes Pereira Chapter 5. Renewed Catholic Apostolate in Urbanized Belgian Congo Through Sport (1919-1959)Dries Vanysacker Chapter 6. Concordat, Concordat…Church-state relations in the Portuguese Empire, 1940-74Eric Morier-Genoud Chapter 7. Nyerere’s Secrets. Catholic Missionaries and the Making of Tanzania Frans WijsenChapter 8. The Catholic Church and the State in the Congo – Some Aspects of a Changing Relationship from Colonialism to IndependenceMarco Moerschbacher Chapter 9. Creating Catholics and Portuguese: the Educational and Civilising Role of Catholic Missions in the Portuguese Imperial ProjectHugo Gonçalves Dores Chapter 10. From Colonialism to Zairianisation. The Dominican Mission in the Congo in the Maelstrom of Politics (1950s – 1970s)Anton Milh Chapter 11. Final RemarksJairzinho Lopes Pereira

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Jairzinho Lopes Pereira is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Mission and Global Studies at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. In July 2021, Jairzinho became a Member of the Portuguese History Academy. Previously, he has studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, at the University of Helsinki in Finland and at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

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