Abstract
With Mamadou Dia and Léopold Sédar Senghor, French Union politicians,
anti-colonial activists and theorists and main state crafters in the formative
years of the Republic of Senegal as prisms, the chapter explores how anti-colonial,
religious African Socialist modernism took shape from the time of its drafting to its
crafting, especially from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. How was religion mobilized
as culture and spirituality when designing an African Socialist model, leaving
behind the colonial empire and forming an alternative to the “materialism” of the
new imperial powers of the USSR and US? How were the radical religion-state separation
model of republican-empire France and Marxist-Leninist atheism the Soviet
way opposed in order to create a “third way” model for socialism – the African and
Senegalese way? And how did the new framework reconfigure “education” as a
state-crafting concept, tool and part of the new social imaginary?
anti-colonial activists and theorists and main state crafters in the formative
years of the Republic of Senegal as prisms, the chapter explores how anti-colonial,
religious African Socialist modernism took shape from the time of its drafting to its
crafting, especially from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. How was religion mobilized
as culture and spirituality when designing an African Socialist model, leaving
behind the colonial empire and forming an alternative to the “materialism” of the
new imperial powers of the USSR and US? How were the radical religion-state separation
model of republican-empire France and Marxist-Leninist atheism the Soviet
way opposed in order to create a “third way” model for socialism – the African and
Senegalese way? And how did the new framework reconfigure “education” as a
state-crafting concept, tool and part of the new social imaginary?
| Translated title of the contribution | En spirituel socialistisk uddannelse: "Kultur-problemet" i senegalesisk republikansk statsopbyging som alternativ til fransk Laïcité og Sovjetisk statsateisme 1950erne til 1960erne |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | Educational Secularization within Europe and beyond : The Political Projects of Modernizing Religion through Education Reform |
| Editors | Mette Buchardt |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Place of Publication | Berlin & Leiden |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Publication date | 4 Nov 2024 |
| Pages | 237-259 |
| Chapter | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-11-133711-1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-11-133797-5, 978-3-11-133814-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Nov 2024 |
| Series | Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte |
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| Number | 6 |
| Volume | De Gryuter |
| ISSN | 2748-9531 |
Keywords
- Secularization politics
- Education Reform
- History of Education
- Political History
- Historical religion research
