Tempels founded the syncretic Jamaa movement among Katanga mine workers

Evidence

Jamaa in the Swahili language means family. It is a large charismatic movement among African Roman Catholics in former Zaire, today the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was founded by Tempels in the early 1950s among urban workers attached to the copper mines in the Katanga province. This movement can best be described as the confrontation and blending of Roman Catholic and Bantu African religious and cultural concepts (de Craemer, 1977, p. 1). With this movement Tempels hoped to quell the tensions between Roman Catholics and Protestants at the time as well as preach ideas of unity and love among human beings. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 594

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Tempels as missionary-practitioner — his philosophizing was inseparable from his pastoral work in the Congo; contrasts with purely academic interpreters.