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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grimes, Katie Walker (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Christian saints > Attributes.
Slavery and the church > Catholic Church > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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