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

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).

• Introduction Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys and Jan De MaeyerIntroduction Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys et Jan De MaeyerRELIGIONS 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 VellutInternationalism, Religion and the Congo Question An introduction, 1875-1905 39 Vincent ViaeneReligion and Politics in the ‘Congo’. Portugal and the European inter-imperial competition, c. 1865-1890 Miguel Bandeira JerónimoLes droits des autochtones. Un enjeu dans les relations jésuites-État, fin XIXe-début XXe siècle Anne-Sophie GijsCatholic Missionaries and the Production of Kasai as a Colonial Landscape, 1890-1960 Bram CleysINTERMEDIARIES / INTERMÉDIAIRES Musique et univers sonores dans le champ missionnaire des Grands Lacs. Perception, emprunts et transferts au Kivu, Rwanda et Burundi, 1908-1940 Anne CornetHome 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 BryceReligion et médecine au Congo Belge. Pratiques et savoirs des 1assistants médicaux «indigènes» issus de Kisantu (Fomulac) et de leurs patients, 1937-1961 Emery M. KalemaVivre (à) la Mission. Mémoires individuelles, histoire collective Elisabeth Mudimbe-BoyiTHE CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL MISSIONS / LA CRISE DES MISSIONS COLONIALESTempels Revisited. The conversion of a missionary in the Belgian Congo, 1930s-1960s Piet ClementDevelopmental Colonialism and Kitawala Policy in 1950s Belgian Congo Dominic PistorLes missions catholiques et les émeutes de Léopoldville, 4 janvier 1959 Zana EtambalaLe mouvement muleliste comme théorie et pratique religieuses en diocèse d’Idiofa (Province du Kwilu, R.D.C.) Sindani E. KianguIndex Authors / Auteurs Colophon

[...] 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, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac253