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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fromont, Cecile (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: 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.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by war and the Atlantic slave trade, and finally narrates its unravelling as 19th-century European colonialism penetrated Africa.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9781469618739

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