Religion, Kolonisation und Entkolonialisierung im Kongo, 1885-1960. Religion, Kolonis

Religion, colonization and decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et decolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960

by Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys, Jan De Maeyer

A comprehensive history of the interaction between religion and colonization

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Publisher Description

Religion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries, the Marian shrines of the Catholic Church, the Islamic brotherhoods, and the Jewish community of Lubumbashi, to the 'African' churches of the Congolese diaspora in Brussels and Paris, the healers of Kimbanguism, the televangelism of the booming Pentecostalist churches in the great cities, the Orthodox communities of Kasai, and the 'invisible' Mai Mai warriors in the brousse of Kivu. During the colonial period religion was no less central to people's lives than it is today. More surprisingly, behind the seemingly smooth facade of missions linked closely to imperial power, also then faith and worship were marked by diversity and dynamism, tying the Congo into broader African and global movements.The contributions in this book provide insight into the multifaceted history of the interaction between religion and colonization. The authors focus on the institutional (including legal) political framework, examine the complex interaction between indigenous and 'imported' non-African religious beliefs and practices, and zoom in on the part religions played in the independence movement as well as on their reaction to independence itself.Contributors: Piet Clement (Bank of International Settlements), Bram Cleys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Anne Cornet (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren) Marie Dunkerley (Exeter University), Zana Aziza Etambala (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren), Anne-Sophie Gijs (Universit Catholique de Louvain), Miguel Bandeira Jer nimo (University of Coimbra), Emery Kalema Masua (University of the Witwatersrand), Sindani E. Kiangu (Universit de Kinshasa), Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford University) Dominic Pistor (Simon Fraser University), Jean-Luc Vellut (Universit Catholique de Louvain), Vincent Viaene

Author Biography

Vincent Viaene studied history and international relations at KU Leuven, the Sorbonne, and Yale University. He was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at KU Leuven, a senior Fellow at KADOC and a Marie Curie Fellow at Oxford University. In 2011 he joined the Belgian diplomatic corps. Since 2015 he is seconded to the Belgian Royal Household as Advisor of His Majesty King Philip. Bram Cleys studied history at KU Leuven and is education officer at the University Centre for Development Cooperation (UCOS), a Belgian NGO. Jan De Maeyer is professor emeritus with formal duties at KU Leuven, honorary director of KADOC-KU Leuven, chairman of the Advisory Commission on Cultural Heritage of the Flemish Community (2017-2022), and president of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome (2009-2018).

Table of Contents

Introduction Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys and Jan De Maeyer
Introduction Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys et Jan De Maeyer
RELIGIONS AND THE COLONIAL STATE / LES RELIGIONS ET L'ÉTAT COLONIAL Premières évangélisations de l'Afrique centrale et éthique sociale, 1500-1900. Entre morale de conviction et morale de responsabilité Jean-Luc Vellut
Internationalism, Religion and the Congo Question An introduction, 1875-1905 39 Vincent Viaene
Religion and Politics in the 'Congo'. Portugal and the European inter-imperial competition, c. 1865-1890 Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
Les droits des autochtones. Un enjeu dans les relations jésuites-État, fin XIXe-début XXe siècle Anne-Sophie Gijs
Catholic Missionaries and the Production of Kasai as a Colonial Landscape, 1890-1960 Bram Cleys
INTERMEDIARIES / INTERMÉDIAIRES
Musique et univers sonores dans le champ missionnaire des Grands Lacs. Perception, emprunts et transferts au Kivu, Rwanda et Burundi, 1908-1940 Anne Cornet
Home is where the Heart is? Debates between missions and colonial administrators over accommodation for Congolese students at the École Unique des Assistants Médicaux Indigènes, Léopoldville, 1929-1946 Marie Bryce
Religion et médecine au Congo Belge. Pratiques et savoirs des 1assistants médicaux "indigènes" issus de Kisantu (Fomulac) et de leurs patients, 1937-1961 Emery M. Kalema
Vivre (à) la Mission. Mémoires individuelles, histoire collective Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
THE CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL MISSIONS / LA CRISE DES MISSIONS COLONIALES
Tempels Revisited. The conversion of a missionary in the Belgian Congo, 1930s-1960s Piet Clement
Developmental Colonialism and Kitawala Policy in 1950s Belgian Congo Dominic Pistor
Les missions catholiques et les émeutes de Léopoldville, 4 janvier 1959 Zana Etambala
Le mouvement muleliste comme théorie et pratique religieuses en diocèse d'Idiofa (Province du Kwilu, R.D.C.) Sindani E. Kiangu
Index Authors / Auteurs Colophon

Review

Al vanaf de eerste bladzijde van de inleiding poneren zij immers dat ze vooral de verscheidenheid van de religieuze ervaringen ten tijde van kolonisatie en dekolonisatie tot hun recht willen laten komen. Daarmee nemen ze expliciet afstand van de te eenzijdige focus op missionering die de religieuze geschiedenis van koloniaal Congo tot dan had beheerst. Religie was er veel méér, zo betogen ze, dan de pogingen van katholieke (en in snel verminderende mate ook protestantse) missionarissen om hun geloof aan de Congolese bevolking op te dringen. [...] Dat deze verscheidenheid door de samenstellers van dit boek in de schijnwerpers wordt geplaatst, is vanzelfsprekend positief. Zoals ze het zelf verwoorden in hun inleiding: "The picture is one of vivid colours. It is not yet high definition, but it is no longer monochrome."
Marnix Beyen, Volkskunde 2021 - 1
Hiermee zijn een aantal aspecten uit de geschiedenis van Congo aangesneden, maar die toch ook wel doen verlangen naar een nieuw standaardwerk over de rol van missionarissen en kerken vanaf de 19e eeuw tot de huidige Democratische Republiek Congo. Hoe de verschillende congregaties en ordes te werk gingen in de hun toegewezen gebieden, hoe de verhoudingen met de staatsinstellingen verliepen, hoe zich geleidelijk aan een inlandse clerus en kerk ontwikkelde, en welke rol de verschillende (christelijke) kerken en andere geloofsgemeenschappen vandaag spelen in dit onmetelijke land. Dekolonisatie betekent niet dat men eenvoudig weg de geschiedenis achter zich kan laten. Integendeel. De spanningsvelden die er in de huidige RDC zijn hebben hun historische wortels. Dit soort werken, zoals de bundel die nu voorligt, kunnen er toe bijdragen om niet alleen de politieke of sociale geschiedenis van het land te beschrijven, maar ook aandacht te hebben voor de belangrijke rol van religies, onder welke vorm dan ook.Herman Lodewyckx, Acta Comparanda, 2021
L' année 2010 est marquée par la commémoration du cinquantenaire de l' indépendance de la République du Congo. Parmi les très nombreuses manifestations scientifiques qui prennent alors place, le KADOC organise un colloque international intitulé 'Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo 1885-1960'. Celui-ci réunit une trentaine d'intervenants, historiens et hommes d'Église surtout, dont la plupart proviennent de Belgique, de la République démocratique du Congo ou des États-Unis. Les actes de cette rencontre internationale paraissent dix ans plus tard sous le titre bilingue 'Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960.' Bérengère PIRET, Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, LI, 2021, 3
The book is engaging, enjoyable, and a high-quality product, with all chapters well written and capably edited. Students of the colonial encounter, and in particular of missionary action in Congo, will find rich references and numerous suggested avenues for future research.
Matthew G. Stanard, TSEG, VOL. 18, NO. 2, 2021, , DOI: 10.52024/tseg10788
Its three sections proceed, as the editors explain, from the political to the socio-cultural and personal order, yet, each section exemplifies the deep entanglements of these domains. The authors aim to put religious agency at centre stage, focusing on the cultural interface created by the missionary encounter. This approach highlights both the interplay between objectives and interests of consecutive colonial administrations, policies of Protestant and Catholic missionary organisations, practices of missionaries on the ground and mediation and appropriations by their converts: African Christians who became key players in carving out multiple meanings of religion in Congo.Marit Monteiro, SZRKG/RSHRC/RSSRC, 116 (2022), 403–506, DOI: 10.24894/2673-3641.00127
[...] a worthwhile contribution to scholarship on Congo [...] hopefully it should help stimulate new research in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Congolese religious history.David Maxwell, The English Historical Review, 2022, ceac253, 1093/ehr/ceac253

Long Description

Religion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries, the Marian shrines of the Catholic Church, the Islamic brotherhoods, and the Jewish community of Lubumbashi, to the 'African' churches of the Congolese diaspora in Brussels and Paris, the healers of Kimbanguism, the televangelism of the booming Pentecostalist churches in the great cities, the Orthodox communities of Kasai, and the 'invisible' Mai Mai warriors in the brousse of Kivu. During the colonial period religion was no less central to people's lives than it is today. More surprisingly, behind the seemingly smooth facade of missions linked closely to imperial power, also then faith and worship were marked by diversity and dynamism, tying the Congo into broader African and global movements. The contributions in this book provide insight into the multifaceted history of the interaction between religion and colonization. The authors focus on the institutional (including legal) political framework, examine the complex interaction between indigenous and 'imported' non-African religious beliefs and practices, and zoom in on the part religions played in the independence movement as well as on their reaction to independence itself. Contributors: Piet Clement (Bank of International Settlements), Bram Cleys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Anne Cornet (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren) Marie Dunkerley (Exeter University), Zana Aziza Etambala (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren), Anne-Sophie Gijs (Universit

Details ISBN9462701423 Pages 336 Publisher Leuven University Press ISBN-10 9462701423 ISBN-13 9789462701427 Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 200.96751 Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-10-22 UK Release Date 2020-10-22 Imprint Leuven University Press Place of Publication Leuven Country of Publication Belgium Author Jan De Maeyer Audience Age 18 Series KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society Alternative 9789461662941 Edited by Jan De Maeyer Series Number 22 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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• ISBN-13: 9789462701427
• ISBN: 9789462701427
• Publication Year: 2020
• Type: Textbook
• Format: Paperback
• Language: French, English
• Book Title: Religion, colonization and decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et decolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960
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• Author: Jan De Maeyer, Bram Cleys, Vincent Viaene
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