Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas - Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo.

About the author

Cécile Fromont is Associate Professor of History of Art at Yale University. She is also the author of the award-winning book The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo.

Summary

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo.

Product details

• Assisted by: Cecile Fromont (Editor), Cécile Fromont (Editor), Cecile (Yale) Fromont (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2021
• EAN: 9780271083308
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08330-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Africana Religions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, DRAMA / African, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, The Americas, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people