Cargando…

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"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fromont, Cécile (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Colección:Africana religions.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sangamentos on Congo Square? : Kongolese warriors, brotherhood kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans / Jeroen Dewulf
  • Moros e Christianos ritualized naval battles : baptizing American waters with African spiritual meaning / Kevin Dawson
  • A Mexican sangamento? : the first Afro-Christian performance in the Americas / Miguel A. Valerio
  • Representing an African king in Brazil / Lisa Voigt
  • Black ceremonies in perspective : Brazil and Dahomey in the eighteenth century / Junia Ferreira Furtado
  • Envisioning Brazil's Afro-Christian congados : the black king and queen festival lithograph of Johann Moritz Rugendas / Cécile Fromont
  • The Orisa house that Afro-Catholics built : Africana antecedents to Yoruba religious formation in Trinidad / Dianne M. Stewart
  • On hearing Africas in the Americas : domestic celebrations for Catholic saints as Afro-diasporic religious tradition / Michael Iyanaga.