African Catholic - Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church

Elizabeth Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to create an authentically "African¿ church.

About the author

Elizabeth A. Foster is the author of Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940, which won the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society. An Associate Professor of History at Tufts University, she has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and has received Fulbright, ACLS, and NEH Fellowships.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A Foster, Elizabeth A. Foster
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2019
• EAN: 9780674987661
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98766-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, France, European History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, General and world history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Catholic