Catholic Schools as ‘A Nation in Miniature’

Catholic Civism in Senegal and Benin, 1960–1970s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8978360
AutoresRachel Kantrowitz (John Brown University, autor correspondente), RACHEL A KANTROWITZ
Ano2018
Volume59
Fascículo2
Páginas221-239
Data de publicação2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853718000300
OpenAlexW2886253714
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas17

Catholic school alumni played a crucial role in shaping Senegal and Benin in the first decades after independence. 1 Though they came from a variety of religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, they nevertheless strongly identified with their Catholic schooling experience. Indeed, these West African alumni composed a distinct social group that had been inculcated in the habits and values of ‘Catholic civism’, an ideology based around public service, self-discipline, moral restraint, honesty, and community. While many studies of educated youth emphasize their political activism, Catholic school youth engaged in the subtler process of shaping their new countries by transforming colonial-era institutions from within. Beyond politics, students who graduated in the early independence era used Catholic civism as both a social marker and an implicit social critique

Colonialism · Honesty · Ideology · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · North African History and Literature · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies