Decolonizing Christianity - Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria

Informationen zum Autor Darcie Fontaine is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships to support her research in Europe and North Africa, including a Fulbright-IIE fellowship to France and multiple grants from the American Institute of Maghrib Studies. Her scholarship situates the history of modern France and its empire in a global perspective, and seeks to trace the long-term impact of colonialism and decolonization on a wide spectrum of actors, institutions, and ideas. She is currently completing a textbook on France and its empire from the eighteenth century to the present. Klappentext This book traces Christianity's change from European imperialism's moral foundation to a voice of political and social change during decolonization. Zusammenfassung Decolonizing Christianity's timely exploration of themes such as the relationship between religion and politics! Christian-Muslim relations! and the legacy of colonialism in France and North Africa! clarifies both history and current events for scholars and students of France and its empire! global religious history! and many other related fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Christianity and French Algeria; 2. Christianity on trial: the battle to define Christian morality; 3. The metropolitans respond: the conflicts of politics and conscience; 4. The religious politics of independence; 5. Inventing postcolonial Christianity; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Darcie Fontaine, Darcie (University of South Florida) Fontaine, Fontaine Darcie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107118171
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11817-1
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Christian Church / History, Christianity, c 1960 to c 1970, Algeria, African History, Christian institutions & organizations, Religious institutions and organizations