There is abundance of literature on African Catholicism but it is unvenly distributed across disciplines in humanity and social sciences. Theology takes the lion's share followed by historical sciences. Overall, Catholicism in Africa has been neglected in the social sciences first in favour of African Independant Churches and, more recently, of Pentecostalism. This volume is interested in contributions which take a social scientist approach (based on empirical data) to any aspect of African Catholicism. 

Presentation

There is an abundance of literature on African Catholicism but it is unevenly distributed across disciplines in humanities and social sciences. Theology takes the lion’s share followed by historical sciences. Overall, Catholicism has been largely neglected in social sciences first in favor of African Independent Churches and, more recently, of Pentecostalism. This volume is interested in contributions which take a social scientist approach (based on empirical data) to any aspect of African Catholicism.

Contributions should focus on one of the following thematic axis of Catholicism in Africa (non-exhaustive list) Les contributions doivent porter sur l’un des domaines suivants du Catholicisme en Afrique (liste non exhaustive) :

• Lived catholicism
• Catholicism and cultural and religious pluralisms
• Women in the church in Africa
• Clergy and consecrated life in Africa
• African Catholic institutions
• Economic dependencies and independencies
• Church and Politics in Africa
• Rural Catholicism and Urban Catholicism
• Local appropriations of beliefs and liturgies
• Catholic art and symbolism
• formation of catholic identities
• Mariage, sexuality and African Catholicism
• Les bricolages religieux des catholiques d’en-bas
• Catholicism, witchcratf and deliverance rituals

Submission guidelines

Abstracts of 300 to 500 words, in French or English, should be sent before December 31, 2023 to the following address: ladoludo@yahoo.fr. They should include the following information: title of the proposal; surname and first name of the author(s), first name of the author(s); university/institution/organization; abstract; five keywords. Once the summary is approved, the author will be asked to write the full paper.

Scientific committee

• Ludovic Lado, PHD, Centre d’Etudes et de Formation pour le Développement (CEFOD), Ndjamena, Chad. 
• Jean Luc Enyegue SJ,  PHD,  Director of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. 
• Félicien Coulibaly, PHD,  Félix Houphouët-Boigny University of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. 
• Estelle Kouokam Magne, PHD, Faculty of Social Sciences and Management of the Catholic University of Central Africa (Yaoundé, Cameroon). 
• Norbert Litoing, PHD, Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya
• Rodrigue Naortangar, PHD, CERAP/Université Jésuite, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 
• Ilo Stan Chu, PHD, DePaul University, Chicago, USA. 
• Léonard A. Katchekpele, PHD, Université Catholique d’Afrique de l’Ouest, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.