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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fromont, Cecile (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Christianity.
Christian art and symbolism.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Christianisme > Congo (Royaume)
Christianity > Kongo Kingdom.
Christian art and symbolism > Kongo Kingdom.
Africa > Kongo Kingdom.
Kongo Kingdom > Church history.
Kongo Kingdom > Religious life and customs.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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