The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo /

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Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practised Christianity, actively participating in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm on a par with European monarchies. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fromont, Cecile (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014.
Temas:
Christian art and symbolism > Kongo Kingdom.
Christianity > Kongo Kingdom.
Christianisme > Congo (Royaume)
HISTORY > Africa > West.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christian art and symbolism
Christianity
Kongo Kingdom > Religious life and customs.
Kongo Kingdom > Church history.
Africa > Kongo Kingdom
Church history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sangamentos : performing the advent of Kongo Christianity
  • Under the sign of the cross in the Kingdom of Kongo : religious conversion and visual correlation
  • The fabric of power, wealth, and devotion : clothing and regalia of the Christian Kongo
  • Negotiating time and space : architecture, rituals, and power in the Christian Kongo
  • From Catholic kingdom to the heart of darkness : the fate of Kongo Christianity in the nineteenth century.

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