Autore
Cristofori, Silvia

Titolo
Costantino l'africano. Il progetto politico-religioso di Charles Lavigerie per l'Africa centrale (1878- 1885)
Periodico
Cristianesimo nella storia
Anno: 2015 - Volume: 38 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 537 - Pagina finale: 592

This article analyzes the political-religious project that Charles Lavigerie(founder of the White Fathers Missionary Society, 1868) worked out for theevangelization of Equatorial Africa. The aim is to investigate the ideology of"Christianitas" in the context of the Scramble for Africa and in the backgroundof the coeval racializing and ethnicizing European interpretations of Africansocieties. In this regard the analysis of his project shows how Lavigerieconceived the evangelization of Africa as laying on the basis of a Constantinianpattern of conversion, planning to found an African Christian Kingdomindependent from European imperialist powers. Consequently, the articlehighlights the peculiar relationship that Lavigerie established, through aCatholic vision of the civilization of Africa, between 'African culture' andChristian universality.



SICI: 0393-3598(2015)38:3<537:CLIPPD>2.0.ZU;2-V
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.17395/82020
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