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Finding a Social Voice - The Church and Marxism in Africa (Hardcover, New)
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Finding a Social Voice - The Church and Marxism in Africa (Hardcover, New)
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From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the influence of Marxist
ideas expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. The Catholic Church saw this
influence as likely to affect the accomplishment of its mission,
and its pastoral efforts accordingly sought to deal with the
Marxist thrust. In the late 1980s, Marxist influence in Africa
declined sharply as Marxist political dominance became less
intense. Nevertheless, the Church's encounter with Afrcian Marxism
constituted an important chapter in both secular and ecclesiastical
history. Finding a Social Voice records and analyzes the
significant elements of this encounter. Father McKenna's book
investigates how postcolonial African regimes under varying degree
of Marxist influence have interacted with the Catholic Church, and
studies how the Chruch has grown through its response to that
interaction. The book contributes greatly to the virtually
unexplored topic of church-state interaction in contemporary
Africa. McKenna's claim that the Catholic Chruch's response to
Marxism was a "part of its coming to maturity," part of its
bringing its social perspective to bear on the processes of
political, economic, and social modernization through which
traditional cultures were passing, is an important contribution to
the more recent literature on the emergence of "civil society" in
Sub-Saharan Africa. The text also provides an introduction to
post-Vatican II understandings of ecclesiastical activity in
Africa. It reviews the theory and practice of Marxism as developed
by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the leaders of Soviet Russia and other
Communist countries. It then presents an overview of the ways in
which Marxist influence worked in Africa and a similar overviewof
how the Church functioned and was affected by that influence.
Finally, the book offers case-studies on the interaction of Marxism
and the Church in four diverse Africa countries: Mozambique,
Madagascar, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The introductory chapters make
this book accessible to the general reader; the book as a whole is
an enrichment of our understanding of contemporary Africa.
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