Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas : performance, representation, and the making of Black Atlantic tradition /
"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
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Africana religions.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of 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.
