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En allant aux racines des problèmes ethniques qui ont secoué le Rwanda depuis 1959, on a souvent tendance à amalgamer missionnaires catholiques et administration belge quant au rôle joue dans la création de l'idéologie ethniste. Pourtant, chaque acteur avait sa mission à accomplir dans le pays. Les intérêts ne pouvaient donc pas concorder totalement à part ceux d'ordre culturel. Leurs méthodes de travail ne correspondaient pas non plus. L'évangélisation était le but primordial des missionnaires. Et tout agissement missionnaire tournait autour d'elle. Quant aux Belges, il s'agissait d'une administration coloniale et tout ce qui en découlait. C'est dans cette optique que cette thèse a choisi l'isolement de l'Église catholique missionnaire dans les débuts de la crise ethnique au cours de la période coloniale et dans la Première République. L'étude suit l'évolution de cette Institution de sa naissance en 1900 jusqu'en 1973, date de la "rwandisation" de la hiérarchie ecclésiastique. Elle analyse les problèmes rencontres par les missionnaires, leurs succès, leurs méthodes, leurs échecs, leur collusion avec les pouvoirs temporels. Cette évolution de l'Église est étudiée parallèlement avec l'ethnisation de la société rwandaise pour cerner le rôle éventuel joue par le clergé. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Thesis (MA.(Church History)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-142).

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Many works have been written about the Civil War. While many of these books have contributed much to the knowledge of this war, some areas have received less attention than they merit. One such topic is the interrelation of the war and religion. Since they had used scriptural arguments to attack and defend state rights, secession, and slavery in ante-bellum years, the churchmen defended their conduct during the war with the same arguments. Yet there is no adequate study of this facet of the war. There are, however, accounts of some of the denominations and their activities in the sixties: Benjamin J. Blied, Catholics and the Civil War (Milwaukee, 1945); Joseph B. Cheshire, The Church in the Confederate States: A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States (New York, 1912); Charles W. Heathcote, The Lutheran Church and the Civil War (Cincinnati, 1912); Lewis G. Vander Velde, The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union, 1861--1869 (Cambridge, Mass., 1932). Of these studies only Vander Velde's book measures up to the modern demands of research and writing. Based on a wealth of material, his effort is dependable and thorough. The work at hand is intended to supplement Vander Velde's account, since he did not attempt to deal with the Presbyterians outside the Federal Union during the war years. This is not a theological account, for the ferocity of a life and death struggle left no time to argue the finer points of religious orthodoxy. Instead, Presbyterians in the South concentrated their spiritual strength in support of their nation. They tried to fight a war while keeping the faith. This attempt led them to organize a new General Assembly, to serve as soldier and believer with the army, to ferret out the unfaithful, to preach the Gospel to white and black alike, and to defend Zion. Since these and related topics were uppermost in the minds of the people who made up the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America, this study concerns the investigation and description of how and why these normally conservative individuals maintained their Church through four years of shattering war and into the uncertainty of total defeat. This account is designed to follow a chronological arrangement. Where this is not possible, certain topics such as the Negro and slavery and missions are discussed independently.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 2008. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 1 février 2007). In ProQuest dissertations and theses. Publié aussi en version papier.

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1974. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [48]-49).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nottingham, 1954. / Includes bibliographical references.