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Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas : performance, representation, and the making of Black Atlantic tradition / edited by Cécile Fromont.
LIBRA E29.N3 A555 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Africana religions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people.
- Religion.
- Africans.
- America.
- Africans--America--Religion.
- Black people--America--Religion.
- Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church--America.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church.
- African diaspora.
- Africans--Religion.
- Black people--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 203 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780271083292
- 0271083298
- OCLC:
- 1084620480
- Publisher Number:
- 99980893857
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