Cinquante ans d'histoire des missions catholiques en France : l'âge universitaire

Prudhomme, Claude

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“…The focus has been mainly on Portuguese missionary activity in the Portuguese empire (in Africa: Cape Verde, Portuguese Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Angola, and Mozambique; in Asia, Goa and dependencies, Macau, and Portuguese Timor), minimising the overall question of Christian missionary activity in the Portuguese empire, whether led by Portuguese subjects or not. Studying such historical processes requires different types of arguments, questions, and perspectives, invariably moving towards a broader approach to contemporary missionary issues since mission cannot be seen in a strictly national threshold, whether in its metropolitan or imperial dimensions (Prudhomme 2007;Etherington 2012). As elsewhere, missions in the Portuguese empire were far from being uniquely or mainly constituted by Portuguese staff, nor were they defined solely by a political, ideological, cultural, or theological Portuguese framework, despite, in the Catholic case, their jurisdictional subordination to a Portuguese episcopal structure (Ferreira 1999(Ferreira , 2000.…”

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Beyond Nation and Empire? Questioning the Role of Religious Missions under Portuguese Colonial Rule at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Dores

2024

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From the beginning of European overseas expansion in the fifteenth century, religious missions occupied an important place in the internal organisation of colonial empires. Their contribution to the ideological structuring of imperialism and the interaction with local populations is undeniable. With the emergence of the new imperialism and the scramble for Africa (after the 1870s), the missions, often anticipating the colonial political and administrative presence, enhanced their role as advocates of Europe’s “civilising mission”, above all through the education of the colonised peoples. For Portuguese decision-makers, the religious missions, with a multi-century tradition, had an important role in defending territorial claims overseas and promoting the empire’s nationalisation. However, the lack of national missionaries, Christianity’s inter-confessional competition in the nineteenth century and the emergence of international legal rules protecting missionary activities hindered Portugal’s strategies. Using sources from several archives (in Lisbon, the Vatican, and elsewhere) to emphasise the role of a transnational missionary staff and the international law of missions, this text intersects these aspects, examining their convergence in the controversial case of the exit and replacement of Jesuit missionaries in Mozambique in 1910–1911, to demonstrate the need to look at the missionary issues in the Portuguese overseas domains from perspectives that go beyond nation and empire.

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