Church-State Relations in Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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.

• 1. Introduction: The Shifting Contexts of Church-state Relations in the European Colonies during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Jairzinho Lopes Pereira.- 2. How Rome Managed Church-state Relations in Colonial Empires; Claude Prudhomme.- 3. Missionaries, Colonial Government and the Labour Question in South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Philippe Denis.- 4.Slavery and other Atrocities in the Relationship between the Catholic Church and the Congo Free State, 1889-1908; Jairzinho Lopes Pereira.- 5. Renewed Catholic Apostolate in the Urbanized Belgian Congo through Sport, 1919-1959; Dries Vanysacker.- 6. Concordat, Concordat…Church-state relations in the Portuguese Empire, 1940-74; Eric Morier-Genoud.- 7. Nyerere’s Secrets: Catholic Missionaries and the Making of Tanzania; Frans Wijsen.- 8. The Catholic Church and the State in the Congo: Aspects of a Changing Relationship from Colonialism to Independence; Marco Moerschbacher.- 9. The Educational and Civilising Role of Catholic Missions in the Portuguese Imperial Project; Hugo Gonçalves Dore.- 10. From Colonialism to Zairianisation: The Dominican Mission in the Congo in the Maelstrom of Politics, 1950s-1970s; Anton Milh.- 11. Final Remarks; Jairzinho Lopes Pereira.