Competing Catholicisms – The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa: Religion in Transforming Africa

Chronology of Jesuit Missions in Chad and Cameroon Introduction Part I: The Jesuit Project in West Africa: French Catholicism and Colonialism in Chad, 1935-1958 1 Era of Confusion: The Vatican's or France's Wider Agenda? 1935-1946 2 Founding Era: The Conservatism of Frédéric de Bélinay, Jesuit Pioneer in Chad, 1946-1958 3 Colonial Era: Joseph du Bouchet and the Building of the Jesuit Mission in Chad, 1947- 1958 Part II: The Outward Mission: Education and Competing Catholicisms 4 Era of Civilization: Popular Education and Islamism 5 Era of Accommodation: Mission toward the Southern "Ethno-Religionists" 6 Era of Revolution: Bishop Paul Dalmais and Chad's Cultural Revolution, 1958-1975 Part III: The Postcolonial Mission and Catholicity: From Chad to Cameroon, 1962-1978 7 Era of Consolidation: The Rebirth of Missionary Catholicism after Independence, 1962-1973 8 Era of Experimentation: M.-P. Hebga, First Cameroonian Major Superior, 1968-1973 9 Era of Dissent: Cameroonian Jesuits and Global Catholicism, 1974-1978 Conclusion