Profile

Email

id9936@alunos.uminho.pt

Science ID

2616-134B-2CA6

Ciênciavitae

n/a

ORCID

n/a

Lab2PT Group

SpaceR - Space and Representation

Scientific Area

History and Archaeology; History

Supervision

Maria Fátima Cunha Moura Ferreira António Matos Ferreira

Project Title

Religious Currents, Colonialisms and Liberation Movements: the Place of Religious Confessions in the Mozambican Independence Process from the Prism of the Catholic Church (1964-1975)

Abstract

At a time still strongly marked by the policy of Catholic uniformity and the ambition to build a great multiracial and pluricontinental nation, despite the echoes of the Colonial War, signs of change in the relationship between colonial consciousness and the legitimacy of the liberation of Mozambique are beginning to emerge among members of the Catholic Church. Starting from the multifaceted religious universe that characterized the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique, a place where different confessionalities coexisted - Christian (Catholic and Protestant), Islamic, and indigenous religions - the research project chooses to study the place of the religious phenomenon in the independence movement and process of the former Portuguese colony. In particular, the research is carried out through the prism of the Catholic field (high dignitaries of the Church) without necessarily neglecting the interactions and dynamics (cooperation, competition, and/or confrontation) that cross the other confessionalities of the then colony.

Keywords

Late Portuguese colonialism, Religious Currents in Mozambique, Catholic Church, Liberation and Independence Movements

Organic Unit

Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho