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The missionary policy in the territories under Portuguese rule in Africa was deeply affected by the need to make the missions instrumental in terms of expansion and affirmation of imperial sovereignty.
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Dores, H.G. (2022). Creating Catholics and Portuguese: The Educational and Civilizing Role of Catholic Missions in the Portuguese Imperial Project. 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_9
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