Missionary Discourse and Racial Imagination in Colonial Rwanda

The article explores the racial imagination that shaped Catholic colonial missions in Rwanda. It highlights the usage of racial language in naming both European-African tensions and Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Also discussed are the racial paternalism of missionary Charles Lavigerie, and the racist Hamitic...

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Subtitles:Special Section: Missions and race in Africa
Main Author: Carney, J. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2018]
In: Fides et historia
Year: 2018, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 66-78
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBE Anthropology
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Race Relations
B Christian missions; Africa
B Rwanda; History
B Tutsi (African people)
B Catholic missions
B Hutu (African people)
B Lavigerie, Charles
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Summary:The article explores the racial imagination that shaped Catholic colonial missions in Rwanda. It highlights the usage of racial language in naming both European-African tensions and Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Also discussed are the racial paternalism of missionary Charles Lavigerie, and the racist Hamitic Thesis that established Hutu and Tutsi social categories during the colonial period.
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