The Protestant Church in Congo

The Mobutu Years and their Impact

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ID3932335
AuthorsDavid J Garrard (1 Mattersey Hall, Mattersey, South Yorkshire, DN10 5HD UK [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume43
Issue2
Pages131-166
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700666-12341246
OpenAlexW2071844896
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

This paper examines the Protestant Church in Congo/Zaire during the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. It reviews its origins as a loose affiliation of denominations during the days of the Belgian colony and the changes which came about under Bokeleale-its driving force and central figure. His goal was to do away with the autonomy of the denominations and create a super Protestant Church in the nation. With the help of government legislation, forced union and centralisation took place. It is the purpose here to highlight some of the forces that were at work and to decide what the consequences were in this marriage of the Protestant Church and the state in Zaire. Not all Protestants yielded to the pressures of state and church and by the 1990s new expressions of faith were emerging in the nation. What then were the outcomes

Autonomy · Centralisation · Faith · Government (linguistics) · History of religions · Legislation · Political science · Protestantism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies

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