EAN: 9780820479095

RELIGIOUS CONFLICT AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAG...

The book was awarded the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize in French Colonial History  2009. This
groundbreaking comparative study examines how church-state conflicts shaped the evolution of
German and French language policy in Cameroon from the dawn of the colonial era to the onset of
WWII. Despite lingering anti-Catholic sentiments generated by Germany's Kulturkampf and early
twentieth-century French anti-clerical legislation  in Cameroon these conflicts created a
curious inversion in which Protestant  rather than Catholic  missions were portrayed as
obstructionist and unpatriotic due to their preference for using indigenous languages in
educational and evangelical work. Inside French Cameroon this situation suddenly and
dramatically reversed itself during the mid-1920s as the Catholics rethought their commitment
to spreading French in the colonies. The result was repeated clashes between colonial
authorities and mission personnel right up to the outbreak of war in 1939.

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