عنوان

Civilizing settlers: Catholic missionaries and the colonial state in French Algeria, 1830-1914

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انگلیسی

Civilizing settlers: Catholic missionaries and the colonial state in French Algeria, 1830-1914

[Thesis]

Kyle Francis

Troyansky, David

City University of New York

2015

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Committee members: Herzog, Dagmar; Rosenberg, Clifford; Surkis, Judith; Vaughan, Megan

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-35326-6

Ph.D.

History

City University of New York

2015

This dissertation argues that between 1830 and 1914, with increasing intensity over time, French Catholic missionaries sowed divisions among the European population of French Algeria. The French government initially welcomed missionaries to cater to religiously devout Spanish, Italian, and Maltese settlers in Algeria and to foster their loyalty to the colonial state. Missionaries, however, incited the professional jealousy and personal animosity of the territory's generally less devout French population, who saw Catholicism and missionaries as little different from Islam and the 'fanatical' Muslim population. Throughout this period, missionaries thus occupied a liminal space in the racialized hierarchy of colonial rule. As such, their presence disrupted colonial taxonomies that positioned a 'civilized' European population as superior to an 'uncivilized' indigenous one.

Religious history; North African Studies; Modern history

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Algeria;Catholicism;France;Settler colonialism

Yaylaci, Ismail

Troyansky, David

History

City University of New York

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