Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Glossary

pp xv-xvi

Chronology of Jesuit Missions in Chad and Cameroon

pp xvii-xx

Introduction: The End of the Jesuit Mission in Africa?

pp 1-22

Part I - The Jesuit Project in West Africa: French Catholicism and Colonialism in Chad, 1935–58

pp 23-24

Introduction

pp 25-29

1 - Era of Confusion: The Vatican’s or France’s Wider Agenda? 1935–46

pp 30-56

2 - Founding Era: The Conservatism of Frédéric de Bélinay, Jesuit Pioneer in Chad, 1946–58

pp 57-74

3 - Colonial Era: Joseph du Bouchet and the Building of the Jesuit Mission in Chad, 1947–58

pp 75-92

Part II - The Outward Mission: Education and Competing Catholicisms

pp 93-94

Introduction

pp 95-97

4 - Era of Civilisation: Popular Education and Islamism

pp 98-123

5 - Era of Accommodation: Mission towards the Southern ‘Ethno-Religionists’

pp 124-140

6 - Era of Revolution: Bishop Paul Dalmais and Chad’s Cultural Revolution, 1958–75

pp 141-172

Part III - The Postcolonial Mission and Catholicity: From Chad to Cameroon, 1962–78

pp 173-174

Introduction

pp 175-176

7 - Era of Consolidation: The Rebirth of Missionary Catholicism after Independence, 1962–73

pp 177-193

8 - Era of Experimentation: M.-P. Hebga, First Cameroonian Major Superior, 1968–73

pp 194-225

9 - Era of Dissent: Cameroonian Jesuits and Global Catholicism, 1974–78

pp 226-254

Conclusion

pp 255-272

Bibliography

pp 273-294

Index

pp 295-300

Previously published titles in the series

pp 301-301