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This chapter presents some features of the relations between the Catholic Church and the State in the Congo since the era of colonization up to the 1970s when the then head of state, President Mobutu, launched his ‘authenticity’ campaign.
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Moerschbacher, M. (2022). The Catholic Church and the State in the Congo: Some Aspects of a Changing Relationship from Colonialism to Independence. In: Lopes Pereira, J. (eds) Church-State Relations in Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98613-1_8
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