Thursday, March 14, 2019 From 7:00 PM To 9:00 PM Add to Calendar 2019-03-14 19:00:00 2019-03-14 21:00:00 African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church Join us for a fascinating author talk with Dr. Elizabeth Foster whose latest publication tells the groundbreaking history of how Africans in the French Empire embraced both independence and their Catholic faith during the upheaval of decolonization, leading to a fundamental reorientation of the Catholic Church. The French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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Elizabeth A. Foster is the author of Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940, which won the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society. An Associate Professor of History at Tufts University, she has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and has received Fulbright, ACLS, and NEH Fellowships.
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