AFRAMO CHS / Associação Franco-Moçambicana de Ciências Humanas e Sociais
Professor
Professor
Áreas de interesse:
História, Política, Ideologia, Religião, Guerra, Negociacão, Reconciliacão
PhD
The Catholic Church, religious orders and the making of politics in colonial Mozambique, 1940—1974
State University of New York
- 2006SOAS, Universidade de Londres, UK e State University of New York, USA
- 1996Universite de Lausanne, Suiça
- 1992BOOKS
(ed.) Imperial Migrations. Colonial Communities and Diaspora in the Portuguese World (with Michel Cahen), London: Palgrave Macmillan (Collection “Migration, Diaspora and Citizenship”), 2012, 326p.
(ed.) Sure road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, Leiden: Brill (Collection ‘African Social Studies Series‘), 2012, 270p.
Embroiled. Swiss churches, South Africa and Apartheid (with D. Péclard and C. Jeannerat), Berlin: LIT Verlag (Coll. “Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses”), 2011, 373p.
Apostolic Intricacies: Catholic Politics in Colonial Mozambique (manuscript complete, proposal to Virginia University Press, due 2015)
(ed.) Provincial Wars? Local dynamics of the Armed Conflict in Mozambique, 1977-1992, With Domingos do Rosario and Michel Cahen (proposal to James Currey, due 2015)
(ed.) Kamba Simango. From Black Renaissance to African Nationalism (work in progress, aimed for 2016)
JOURNAL ISSUES & DOSSIER EDITED
Special issue on “Mozambique and the Indian Ocean”, Tsingy (La Réunion), No.16, 2014, forthcoming. With articles by Edward Alpers, Eugénia Rodrigues, Didier Nativel, Fabirico Folio, Marie-Annick Lamy-Giner, Jehanne-Emmanuelle Monnier et Jean Dominique Durand.
Special issue on “Fundamentalism in 21st Century Africa”, Afriche e Orienti (Bologna, Italy: AIEP Editore), No.3-4, 2007, with Professor Uoldelul Chelati Dirar
Contributions from Paul Gifford, Piet Koenings, René Otayek, Fabienne Samson, Abbebe Kifleyesus and Ambra Formenti.
JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
“Renouveau religieux et politique au Mozambique: entre permanence, rupture et historicité”, Politique Africaine (Paris), n°134, June 2014, pp. 155-177.
“The Catholic Church in Mozambique under Revolution, War, and Democracy” in Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna Lyon, and Clyde Wilcox (eds), Religion and Politics in a Global Society. Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World, Lanham: Lexington, 2012 (with Pierre Anouilh), pp.185-203.
“Missions and Institutions. Henri-Philippe Junod, Anthropology, Human Rights and Academia between Africa and Switzerland, 1921-1966”, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte (Fribourg), 2011, pp.1-27.
“Twenty Years after Of Revelation and Revolution: An Interview with Jean Comaroff”, Social Sciences and Missions (Leiden: Brill), vol.24(2-3), 2011, pp.148-170.
“Demain la sécularisation? Les musulmans et le pouvoir au Mozambique aujourd’hui”, in René Otayek & Benjamin Soares (eds), Islam, Etat et société en Afrique. De l’islamisme à l’Islam mondain?, Paris: Karthala, 2009, pp.353-383.
“Mozambique since 1989: Shaping democracy after Socialism” in A.R.Mustapha & L.Whitfield (eds), Turning Points in African Democracy, Oxford: James Currey, 2008, pp.153-166.
“A Prospect of Secularization? Muslims and Political Power in Mozambique Today”, Journal for Islamic Studies, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, vol.27, 2007, pp.233-266.
“Point d’appui: L’Afrique moderne, côté cour, côté jardin”, Nouveaux Cahiers de l’IUED, Paris/Geneva: Presses Universitaires de France, n°15, 2004, pp. 255-282.
“Sant’Egidio et la Paix. Interview de Don Matteo Zuppi et Riccardo Cannelli”, Social Sciences & Missions, nº13, October 2003, pp. 119-145.
“L’Islam au Mozambique après l’indépendance. Histoire d’une montée en puissance”, L’Afrique Politique 2002, Paris: Karthala, 2002, pp. 123-146.
“The Vatican vs. Lisbon. The relaunching of the Catholic church in Mozambique, ca. 1875-1940”, Basler Afrika Bibliographien Working Papers, Basel, n°4, 2002, 16p.
“The 1996 ‘Muslim holiday’ affair. Religious competition and state mediation in contemporary Mozambique”, Journal of Southern African Studies, Oxford: Taylor & Francis, vol.26, n°3, September 2000, pp. 409-27.
“Archives, historiographie et églises évangéliques au Mozambique”, Lusotopie, Paris: Karthala, 2000, pp. 621-630. [revised Portuguese version published in Estudos Moçambicanos, Maputo: University Eduardo Mondlane, n°19, 2001, pp. 137-154.
“Y a-t-il une spécificité protestante au Mozambique? Discours du pouvoir post-colonial et histoire des églises chrétiennes”, Lusotopie, Paris: Karthala, 1998, pp. 407-420.
“Of God and Caesar: The Relation between Christian Churches and the State in post-Colonial Mozambique, 1974-1981”, Le Fait Missionnaire (Lausanne), n°3, September 1996, 96p.
ENCYCLOPEDIA & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
“Mozambique”, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, 2nd Edition, Volume 3, 2014, pp.496-507 (with Azevedo J. Azevedo)
“Kamba Columbus Simango” in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (eds), Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press, 2011
“Dom Sebastião Soares de Resende” in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (eds), Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press, 2011
“Mozambique”, Encyclopædia Universalis (Paris), vol.16, 2008, pp.593-600
“The Politics of Church and Religion in the First Multi-Party Elections of Mozambique”, Internet Journal of African Studies (Bradford), n°1, April 1996
DISCUSSION & CITATION OF MY WORK (selection)
Beckford, James, Social Theory & Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.95-96 (discussion)
Freston, Paul, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p.125 (citation)
Bayart, Jean-François, “Fait missionnaire et politique du ventre : une approche foucaldienne”, Sciences sociales et missions, nº6, sept. 1998, p.30, p.37 (citation)
Cahen, Michel, “Success in Mozambique?” in Simon Chesterman & al. (eds) Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance, Providence: United Nations University Press 2005, p.232 (citation)
Dinerman, Alice, Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa. The case of Mozambique, London: Routledge, 2006, passim (citation)
Pélissier, René, “África : mémorias de ontem, fantasmas de amanhã”, Analise Social (Lisbon), vol.XXVIII, 169, 2004, p.1168 (review)
BOOK REVIEWS
Africa (London, 1994)
African Studies Review (USA, 1999, 2007)
Cahiers d’Études Africaines (Paris, 2004)
International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston, 2001)
Journal of African History (London, 2002)
Journal of Ecclesiastic History (Cambridge, 2010)
Kronos (Cape Town, 2014)
Lusotopie (Paris/Leiden 2001, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007)
Slavery and Abolition (2014)
Social Sciences & Missions (Lausanne, 2004, 2006, 2009)
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions und Kulturgeschichte (Fribourg, 2006)
MEDIA CONTRIBUTION (NEWSPAPER)
2012, Article “As relações entre a igreja e o Estado depois da independência: nuances, discórdias e perspectivas” in the weekly newspaper Canal de Moçambique (Maputo, Mozambique), No. 165, 29 August, p.10.
2012, Article “Igrejas e Estado em Moçambique após a indepêdencia” in the weekly newspaper Canal de Moçambique (Maputo, Mozambique), No.163, 29 August, p.8.
2012, Interview in the weekly newspaper Canal de Moçambique (Maputo, Mozambique), No. 158, 25 July, p.16-18.
2012, Article “Wiriyamu: um massacre por esclarecer?” in the weekly newspaper Savana (Maputo, Mozambique), 16 June, p.11.
2007, Article in Oxford Analytica: “Mozambique: concerns grow over Frelimo dominance”, 11 April.
2005, Interview with the Agency APIC (Fribourg, Switzerland), “A l’Université, des chercheurs s’interrogent sur le fait religieux africain”, 13 November.
2003, Interview in the newspaper Le Courrier (Geneva), “Apartheid: les églises suisses entre action et résignation”, 8 May.
1998, Article in the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany), “Mosambik: die Opposition nimmt nicht am Urnengang teil”, 30 June.
1998, “Wie stabil ist die Demokratie in Mosambik”, Der Überblick, Hamburg (Germany), vol.2, June, pp. 60-63.
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS (last 5 years)
2014 “O Estado colonial e o bispado católico em Moçambique: considerações sobre a trajetória de Dom Sebastião Soares de Resende” (openening lecture), seminar Missões Cristãs em África: Abordagens interdisciplinares de investigação, University of Oporto, Portugal, 20 June
2014, “Religion and Peace Mediation: the case of Mozambique”, at the Conference “Religion, Transformation, Conflict”, Institute of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, 30 May
2014, “Reverse mission? A critical approach”, International Symposium Bringing the Social back into the Sociology of Religion, Queen’s University Belfast, 2 May
2014, “La Suisse et l’Afrique du Sud. Apartheid, affaires et conscience”, lecture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, 11 March
2013, “Pensar a Diversidade. A Igreja Catolica nas Colonias Portuguesas”, at the Colloquium “Da evangelização da África à África evangelizadora: Mediações missionárias em África e a partir de África”, Porto University, Portugal, 17-18 October
2012, “Re-evaluating the Violence and Logic of the Civil War in Mozambique, 1982-92”, Anthropology Seminar, Queen’s University Belfast, 13 November
2012, “From Blood to Stone. Biography of an African War Memorial”, at the workshop ‘Sunken Heritage: Disasters, Dissonance and Conflict’, Queen’s University Belfast, 14 September.
2012, “The Catholic Church in post-colonial Mozambique. Between Socialism, War and Democracy”, at St Augustine College, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 July.
2012, “The dynamics of the war in the province of Inhambane, 1982-92”, at the workshop “Provincial wars? Local dynamics of the armed conflict in Mozambique, 1977-1992”, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Economicos (IESE), Maputo, Mozambique, 23 July.
2012, “Conflito, tolerancia ou dialogo? As Religiões and os Estado em Moçambique” at the Centro Junod/National Union of Journalists, Maputo, Mozambique, 30 May 2012.
2012, “As Fotografias como Fontes Históricas” at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique, 22 May.
2011, “De l’utile à l’agréable ? Henri-Philippe Junod et l’ethnographie protestante au Mozambique, 1921-1934 ”, Colloque of the Centre de Recherche Européen sur la Diffusion et l’Inculturation du Christianisme, Lisbon, 2 September
2011, “The Catholic Church, African Nationalism and Independence in Beira, Mozambique”, Instituto de Ciencia Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-21 June.
2011, “A Transnational Biography: H.-P. Junod and the Development of Religious,
Human Rights and Scientific Institutions”, Sociology department Seminar, Queen’s University Belfast, 09 February.
2011, “From Murraça with Love. Catholicism, Africanism and Revolution in a very short 20th Century”American Historical Association, 125th Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, 6-9 January 2011.
2010, “A turbulent silence: memory and memorials of the civil war in contemporary Mozambique”, Queen’s University’s War and Memory Research Group, 07 Dec.
2010, “Revelações e revoluções: a historiografia sobre as missões cristãs nos últimos 30 anos”, Colloquium Dinâmicas do Religioso: missões, conversões, sociabilidades, Catholic Universtiy of Lisbon , Portugal, 12 November.
2010, “’Tensions of Reform: Henri-Philippe Junod and apartheid in South Africa and Switzerland”, Conference ‘Celebrating Gavin Williams, Oxford University, 10 July.
2009, “Comparing Religious Congregations to understand Catholicism”, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 03 June.
2009, “Religious orders and Catholic diversity. The case of the diocese of Beira, Mozam