Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política

This work, a product of dialogue with texts written by the guerrilla Deolinda Rodrigues, interrogates how a religio-cultural system identified as Protestantism, home to Angolan nationalist elites, in one of its ramifications – that known as the Methodist family – produced another system of reference...

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Main Author: Margarida Paredes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2010-12-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/135
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description This work, a product of dialogue with texts written by the guerrilla Deolinda Rodrigues, interrogates how a religio-cultural system identified as Protestantism, home to Angolan nationalist elites, in one of its ramifications – that known as the Methodist family – produced another system of reference that functions within the nationalist movement that some refer to as the MPLA-family. The object of this reflection is to illuminate some avenues of the possible origins of this culture of family and to consider what kind of identity this is, how it is made, what kinds of social practices and cultures produced it, what represents its political expression and what meanings can be extracted from that.
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Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Angola
protestantism
liberation struggle
political culture and gender
title Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
title_full Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
title_fullStr Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
title_full_unstemmed Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
title_short Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
title_sort deolinda rodrigues da familia metodista a familia mpla o papel da cultura na politica
topic Angola
protestantism
liberation struggle
political culture and gender
url https://journals.openedition.org/cea/135
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