La creación de una diócesis portuguesa en los reinos de Kongo y Angola en 1596: estrategias imperiales e implicaciones religiosas
This article deals with a subject that has been largely overlooked by historiography: the relationship between the project of constructing a Christian community in the kingdoms of Kongo and Angola, and the process of structuring the Portuguese imperialist policy in black Africa between the 15th and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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2022
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Hispania sacra
Year: 2022, Volume: 74, Issue: 150, Pages: 495-509 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBH Iberian Peninsula KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDB Roman Catholic Church SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
África
B Angola B diócesis B Congo B Imperio portugués |
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| Summary: | This article deals with a subject that has been largely overlooked by historiography: the relationship between the project of constructing a Christian community in the kingdoms of Kongo and Angola, and the process of structuring the Portuguese imperialist policy in black Africa between the 15th and 16th centuries. The foundation of a diocese on this territory, during the period of union between the Iberian crowns, was a determining factor in that process, raising several questions that we hope to respond to in this analysis: 1) How did the creation of a Portuguese ecclesiastical circumscription come about in a kingdom that was not politically controlled by the Iberian monarchies? 2) What was its objective? 3) Why did it only take place more than a century after the Portuguese reached the territory? 4) What were the limits of the new ecclesiastical circumscription? Through an approach trigged by the most recent historiographical theories which advocate the polycentric understanding of the Portuguese imperial structure and attentive to the conceptual and methodological perspectives of connected history, we intend to examine the broader context of political and religious relations in the Portuguese Atlantic as well as to perceive not only how both parties influenced each other but also how the Kongo leadership, the Roman Curia, and the Iberian Crowns of Portugal and Spain, apparently united were not acting in the same direction, nor defending the same interests. |
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| ISSN: | 1988-4265 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hispania sacra
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3989/hs.2022.35 |