Sarah DEMART
Grounded on a social anthropology of inspiration and phenomenological
understanding, this doctoral dissertation questions the emergence, mobility and
reconstruction process of the congolese Revival, which has grown exponentially
since the 1970s within and outside of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The perspective adopted is historical (from the late fifteenth to nowadays) and
multisite (Brussels, Kinshasa, Paris, Toulouse). It is justified by the forms of
continuity of this theology of Salvation with the prophecies of precolonial and
colonial periods, while inserting it in a vast movement of religious globalization,
pentecostalism. Basing on this framework, various "deliverance" devices are
examined, missionary migrations in Europe and modes of political participation
(in DRC), significantly marked by processes of demonization. The different
angles of the thesis aim to contribute to the understanding of this religiosity’s
intrinsic conflicts (Bible/Witchcraft) considering the different trends and
spatiotemporal reconfigurations of the Revival taken as a potential memory
construct that is impossible to reduce to imaginary or identity issues. The
development prospects of the way that religious discourse “makes” territory then
leads to the historical depth of the new missionaries’ and migratories’ dynamics.
Supervisors: Alain Tarrius and Albert Bastenier
understanding, this doctoral dissertation questions the emergence, mobility and
reconstruction process of the congolese Revival, which has grown exponentially
since the 1970s within and outside of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The perspective adopted is historical (from the late fifteenth to nowadays) and
multisite (Brussels, Kinshasa, Paris, Toulouse). It is justified by the forms of
continuity of this theology of Salvation with the prophecies of precolonial and
colonial periods, while inserting it in a vast movement of religious globalization,
pentecostalism. Basing on this framework, various "deliverance" devices are
examined, missionary migrations in Europe and modes of political participation
(in DRC), significantly marked by processes of demonization. The different
angles of the thesis aim to contribute to the understanding of this religiosity’s
intrinsic conflicts (Bible/Witchcraft) considering the different trends and
spatiotemporal reconfigurations of the Revival taken as a potential memory
construct that is impossible to reduce to imaginary or identity issues. The
development prospects of the way that religious discourse “makes” territory then
leads to the historical depth of the new missionaries’ and migratories’ dynamics.
Supervisors: Alain Tarrius and Albert Bastenier
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