Eric Morier-Genoud
Biographic Data
| ID | 160866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Morier-Genoud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Morier-Genoud |
| SIGNATURE | MORIER-GENOUD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9680-098X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Towards Jihad?: Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at its origins and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique’s Muslim politics always point towards jihad? The book examines the period after independence, when the state engaged in anticlericalism; it then moves across the decades to the 2000s, when the ruling party and the opposition alike court…
Conclusion
The text begins with a discussion of a new religious law that the Mozambican Parliament was meant to adopt in 2023. It reflects on the different religious regimes that Mozambique has seen since independence. Next, it considers what changes have taken place since independence in relation to state religious policy, secularism, competition, Wahhabism, and Muslim elites. Finally, the text considers anew the question of the historical inevitability of…
Growth and Radicalization?: Islam and Politics after 2004
The chapter unpacks and tests the idea that Mozambique has seen a growth of Islam and a radicalization of Muslims in the years before a Jihadi insurgency began in 2017. In a first section, the text analyzes census data to see whether the number of Muslims has grown nationally or regionally. Next, it looks at the question of radicalization, exploring first a national controversy around the burqa and, second, national opinion polls about the nation…
Faith in Flux. Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique, by Devaka Premawardhana
Les études sur le pentecôtisme en Afrique, et ailleurs, ont toujours le vent en poupe dans le monde universitaire.Les recherches restent nombreuses et les publications régulières, même si l'originalité et l'innovation des études et des publications tendent à décroître avec les années.Il est en effet difficile d'innover dans un champ maintenant longuement et profondément labouré.C'est pourtant le tour de force que réussit le livre de Devaka Premar…
A Historiographical Overview of Mission and Politics in Twentieth-Century Angola and Mozambique
Academic studies of mission and politics in Angola and Mozambique began in earnest in the late 1980s. This article describes what the literature built on, what debates it engaged in in the 1990s, and how the literature has evolved since. It looks at writings and discussions about politics, African Christianity, anthropology, photography, the 'boomerang effect', and Pentecostalism, among others. The objective is to offer a panorama of the literatu…
Antropólogos, missionários e imagens do continente africano - entrevista com Eric Morier-Genoud
Eric Morier-Genoud é Senior Lecturer na Queen's Belfast University, Reino Unido. Fundador e ex-editor-chefe da revista Social Sciences & Missions ele publicou no ano passado a monografia Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1986 . Nesta entrevista, o professor Morier-Genoud, nos conta a respeito da sua trajetória acadêmica e dos itinerários que o levaram a se interessar por atividades missionárias no continente afric…
The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: Origins, Nature and Beginning
For the last three years, Mozambique has been facing an insurgency in its northern province of Cabo Delgado. There is much confusion and debate as to what is going on. Who are the insurgents, what do they want, and where do they come from? Debates have focused particularly on the role of religion and the external dimension of the insurgency. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018 and 2019, this paper focuses on the first attack of the insurgents in Octob…
Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940–1986
Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1986
Looks at the politics of the Catholic Church during a turbulent period in central Mozambique This book is concerned with the internal diversity and complexity of the Roman Catholic Church. It aims at exploring, unpacking, and explaining how the Roman Catholic institution works, how its politics are made, and how the latter impact its environment. Using the diocese of Beira in central Mozambique as a case study, and following insights by Max Weber…
The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book…
“Reverse Mission”: A Critical Approach for a Problematic Subject
The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique 1976–1992
The 1976–1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better understand the history, complexity and multiple dynamics of the armed conflict. Focusing at local level on either a province or a sing…
In Memoriam: Jean-Marie Bouron
Introduction The Civil War in Mozambique: A history still to be written
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict
Women, Migration and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945-1975
Fred Cooper once noted that women had been forgotten as African industrial workers and they needed to be restored to the historical script. Building on this insight, Jeanne Penvenne has authored a ...
Proto-guerre et négociations. Le Mozambique en crise, 2013-2016
Le Mozambique traverse une profonde crise depuis avril 2013 ayant donné lieu à des confrontations armées dans le centre du pays entre les forces armées du gouvernement et la Renamo. Le pays est-il en guerre ? Le sujet fait débat dans le pays. Des négociations ont été ouvertes mais traînent depuis trois ans et l'absence de résolution des tensions à l'origine des violences non seulement prolonge la crise, mais nourrit aussi l'idée que le pays se di…
Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: Small state identity in the Cold war 1955–75
Studies of international history and African affairs rarely consider the case of Ireland. Admittedly this is a small country with a minor impact on the continent. Approached another way, however, Ireland has had a significant diplomatic role in relation to Africa at the United Nations and Africa has, in turn, been most important for the modernization of Irish politics. These two dimensions are at the core of Kevin O'Sullivan's book. He investigat…
Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
Book review of Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique, by Eric Allina, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2012, 255 pp., £44.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-3272-9
Renouveau religieux et politique au Mozambique: Entre Permanence, Rupture Et Historicité
La recherche sur le religieux en Afrique s'est beaucoup intéressée, ces vingt dernières années, au phénomène du « renouveau religieux », et elle s'est plutôt penchée sur la question des ruptures et des innovations qui en résultent. Le présent article interroge la réalité ce renouveau et explore, sur la base d'une étude de cas, la question des continuités et des ruptures dans les changements survenus 1 . Tout d'abord, il s'intéresse à la nature du…
Imperial Migrations: Colonial Communities and Diaspora in the Portuguese World
This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili an
Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
In this chapter, the historical connections between anticolonialism and nationalism will require the discussion of universal concepts, while also exploring the particularities of Portugal's former African Empire. The general idea is to contest the interchangeable use of the words 'anticolonialism' and 'nationalism', as well as to understand why these words are used so interchangeably. The colonial period was a time of State recession in Africa. T…
Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo’s liberation literature, …
Twenty Years After Of Revelation and Revolution: An Interview With Jean Comaroff
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff's acclaimed Of Revelation and Revolution (Vol. I) has reached its 20th anniversary. SSM editor Eric Morier-Genoud takes this as an opportunity to conduct an interview with Jean Comaroff, in which they discuss Jean's intellectual trajectory and her views of the present. The interview elicits Jean Comaroff's reflections on the origins and heritage of Revelation and Revolution , and it discusses her and her husband's …
Introduction A State of the Field
Dynamics of Missions: Women, Catechists, Land and Sociology
The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: Origins, Nature and Beginning
For the last three years, Mozambique has been facing an insurgency in its northern province of Cabo Delgado. There is much confusion and debate as to what is going on. Who are the insurgents, what do they want, and where do they come from? Debates have focused particularly on the role of religion and the external dimension of the insurgency. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018 and 2019, this paper focuses on the first attack of the insurgents in Octob…
The State, Violence and Development. The Political Economy of War in Mozambique, 1975-1992
Book review of: Mark F. Chingono. The State, Violence and Development. The Political Economy of War in Mozambique, 1975–1992. Avebury (Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney), 1996. 291 pp. Foreword by Keith Hart. Tables. Appendix. Selected Bibliography. Index. £42.00. $71.95. Cloth
Proto-guerre et négociations. Le Mozambique en crise, 2013-2016
Le Mozambique traverse une profonde crise depuis avril 2013 ayant donné lieu à des confrontations armées dans le centre du pays entre les forces armées du gouvernement et la Renamo. Le pays est-il en guerre ? Le sujet fait débat dans le pays. Des négociations ont été ouvertes mais traînent depuis trois ans et l'absence de résolution des tensions à l'origine des violences non seulement prolonge la crise, mais nourrit aussi l'idée que le pays se di…
Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo’s liberation literature, …
The 1996 'Muslim Holidays' Affair: Religious Competition and State Mediation in Contemporary Mozambique
Political commentators often cast religious conflict as the result of the numerical growth and political rise of a single faith. When Islam is involved, arguments about religious fundamentalism are quick to surface and often stand as an explanation in their own right. Yet, as useful as this type of explanation may be, it usually fails to address properly, if at all, two sets of important issues. It avoids, first, the question of the rise of other…
Imperial Migrations: Colonial Communities and Diaspora in the Portuguese World
This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili an
A Prospect of Secularization? Muslims and Political Power in Mozambique Today
This article look at Islam and politics in Mozambique. Islam has experienced there an exemplary turnabout since the late 1980s. It has been transformed from a marginalised, and at time oppressed, religion into a socially and publicly important faith. What have been the consequences of this transformation? How did Muslims make use of their progress? And what was the reaction of those in political power? Did Muslims integrate into the elite in powe…
Introduction The Civil War in Mozambique: A history still to be written
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict
Renouveau religieux et politique au Mozambique: Entre Permanence, Rupture Et Historicité
La recherche sur le religieux en Afrique s'est beaucoup intéressée, ces vingt dernières années, au phénomène du « renouveau religieux », et elle s'est plutôt penchée sur la question des ruptures et des innovations qui en résultent. Le présent article interroge la réalité ce renouveau et explore, sur la base d'une étude de cas, la question des continuités et des ruptures dans les changements survenus 1 . Tout d'abord, il s'intéresse à la nature du…
Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940–1986
Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1986
Looks at the politics of the Catholic Church during a turbulent period in central Mozambique This book is concerned with the internal diversity and complexity of the Roman Catholic Church. It aims at exploring, unpacking, and explaining how the Roman Catholic institution works, how its politics are made, and how the latter impact its environment. Using the diocese of Beira in central Mozambique as a case study, and following insights by Max Weber…
The State, Violence and Development. The Political Economy of War in Mozambique, 1975-1992
Book review of: Mark F. Chingono. The State, Violence and Development. The Political Economy of War in Mozambique, 1975–1992. Avebury (Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney), 1996. 291 pp. Foreword by Keith Hart. Tables. Appendix. Selected Bibliography. Index. £42.00. $71.95. Cloth
The 1996 'Muslim Holidays' Affair: Religious Competition and State Mediation in Contemporary Mozambique
Political commentators often cast religious conflict as the result of the numerical growth and political rise of a single faith. When Islam is involved, arguments about religious fundamentalism are quick to surface and often stand as an explanation in their own right. Yet, as useful as this type of explanation may be, it usually fails to address properly, if at all, two sets of important issues. It avoids, first, the question of the rise of other…
A Guerra e as Igrejas: Angola 1961-1991
Book review of A GUERRA E AS IGREJAS: ANGOLA 1961-1991. By Benedict Schubert. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2000. Pp. vii; 251; Introduction by Christine Messiant. CHF. 30, NAM 70, ZAR 70 paper
Pedro Ramos Brandão, A Igreja Católica e o « Estado Novo » em Moçambique, 1960-1974: Lisbonne, Editorial Notícias, 2004, 259 p
Pedro Ramos Brandão, A Igreja Católica e o « Estado Novo » em Moçambique, 1960-1974, Lisbonne, Editorial Notícias, 2004, 259 p., ISBN : 972-46-1567-7, note scientifique de António Costa Pinto, préface de José Capela" published on 23 Oct 2006 by Brill
SSM: Une « nouvelle revue » de douze ans d'âge
SSM: A Twelve Year Old “New Journal”
Notes de lecture
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
A Prospect of Secularization? Muslims and Political Power in Mozambique Today
This article look at Islam and politics in Mozambique. Islam has experienced there an exemplary turnabout since the late 1980s. It has been transformed from a marginalised, and at time oppressed, religion into a socially and publicly important faith. What have been the consequences of this transformation? How did Muslims make use of their progress? And what was the reaction of those in political power? Did Muslims integrate into the elite in powe…
Claúdio Jone, Press and democratic transition in Mozambique, 1990-2000: Johannesbourg (Afrique du Sud), Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud, 2005, 102 p.
"Claúdio Jone , Press and democratic transition in Mozambique, 1990-2000, Johannesbourg (Afrique du Sud), Institut français d’Afrique du Sud, 2005, 102 p. ISBN : 1608-7194 (« Les Nouveaux Cahiers de l’IFAS », 7) [disponible gratuitement sur ]" published on 23 Oct 2008 by Brill.
Notes De Lecture
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections.
Turning Points in African Democracy
Mozambique since 1989: Shaping Democracy after Socialism
L'Eglise compromise? La Fédération des Eglises protestantes de Suisse et l'apartheid (1970-1990)
Book Reviews / Social Sciences and Missions 22 (2009) 112–125 123 Lukas Zürcher, L’Eglise compromise ? La Fédération des Eglises protestantes de Suisse et l’apartheid (1970-1990) (Traduit de l’allemand par André Carruzo), Genève : Labor et Fides (Coll. ‘Histoire et société’, No.48), 2007, 165 p., ISBN : 978-2-8309-1186-2. Quelle a été la position de la Fédération des Eglises Protestantes de Suisse (FEPS) face à l’apar- theid entre 1970 et 1990 ? …
Marxism and Missions / Missions et marxisme
Dynamics of Missions: Women, Catechists, Land and Sociology
Twenty Years After Of Revelation and Revolution: An Interview With Jean Comaroff
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff's acclaimed Of Revelation and Revolution (Vol. I) has reached its 20th anniversary. SSM editor Eric Morier-Genoud takes this as an opportunity to conduct an interview with Jean Comaroff, in which they discuss Jean's intellectual trajectory and her views of the present. The interview elicits Jean Comaroff's reflections on the origins and heritage of Revelation and Revolution , and it discusses her and her husband's …
Introduction A State of the Field
Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
In this chapter, the historical connections between anticolonialism and nationalism will require the discussion of universal concepts, while also exploring the particularities of Portugal's former African Empire. The general idea is to contest the interchangeable use of the words 'anticolonialism' and 'nationalism', as well as to understand why these words are used so interchangeably. The colonial period was a time of State recession in Africa. T…
Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo’s liberation literature, …
Imperial Migrations: Colonial Communities and Diaspora in the Portuguese World
This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili an
Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
Book review of Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique, by Eric Allina, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2012, 255 pp., £44.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-3272-9
Renouveau religieux et politique au Mozambique: Entre Permanence, Rupture Et Historicité
La recherche sur le religieux en Afrique s'est beaucoup intéressée, ces vingt dernières années, au phénomène du « renouveau religieux », et elle s'est plutôt penchée sur la question des ruptures et des innovations qui en résultent. Le présent article interroge la réalité ce renouveau et explore, sur la base d'une étude de cas, la question des continuités et des ruptures dans les changements survenus 1 . Tout d'abord, il s'intéresse à la nature du…
Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: Small state identity in the Cold war 1955–75
Studies of international history and African affairs rarely consider the case of Ireland. Admittedly this is a small country with a minor impact on the continent. Approached another way, however, Ireland has had a significant diplomatic role in relation to Africa at the United Nations and Africa has, in turn, been most important for the modernization of Irish politics. These two dimensions are at the core of Kevin O'Sullivan's book. He investigat…
Proto-guerre et négociations. Le Mozambique en crise, 2013-2016
Le Mozambique traverse une profonde crise depuis avril 2013 ayant donné lieu à des confrontations armées dans le centre du pays entre les forces armées du gouvernement et la Renamo. Le pays est-il en guerre ? Le sujet fait débat dans le pays. Des négociations ont été ouvertes mais traînent depuis trois ans et l'absence de résolution des tensions à l'origine des violences non seulement prolonge la crise, mais nourrit aussi l'idée que le pays se di…
The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book…
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