The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo / Cécile Fromont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fromont, Cécile, author.

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Kongo Kingdom.

Christianity.

Christian art and symbolism--Kongo Kingdom.

Christian art and symbolism.

Kongo Kingdom--Church history.

Kongo Kingdom.

Kongo Kingdom--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908472-9-4

1-4696-1873-7

OCLC:

899261580