Fugitive Saints : Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery /

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How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grimes, Katie Walker (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Christian saints > Attributes.
Slavery and the church > Catholic Church > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Sainthood and historical memory
  • 2. Claver's ministry for slaveocracy
  • 3. Claver as race-making ally of antiblackness supremacy
  • 4. The racialized humility of Peter Claver
  • 5. Coercive kindness : reconsidering Claver "from below"
  • 6. The racialized humility of Saint Martín de Porres
  • 7. Catholic sainthood and the afterlife of slavery
  • 8. Venerable Pierre Toussaint and the search for fugitive saints
  • 9. Toward a fugitive hagiography
  • Conclusion.

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