Black Catholic Worlds

Religious Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia

AvBethan Fisk

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Centring the lived experiences of enslaved and free people of colour, Black Catholic Worlds illustrates how geographies and mobilities - between continents, oceans, and region - were at the heart of the formation and circulation of religious cultures by people of African descent in the face of racialisation and slavery. This book examines black Catholicism in different sites - towns, mines, haciendas, rochelas, and maroon communities - across New Granada, and frames African-descended religions in the region as "interstitial religions." People of African descent engaged in religious practice and knowledge production in the interstices, in liminal places and spaces that were physical sites but also figurative openings, in a society shaped by slavery. Bringing together fleeting moments from colonial archives, Fisk traces black religious knowledge production and sacramental practice just as gold, mined by enslaved people, again began to flow from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-11
Mått:157 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Afro-Latin America
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009543538

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Mer om författaren

Bethan Fisk is Lecturer in Colonial Latin American History at the University of Bristol. This is her first book.

Recensioner i media

'Black Catholic Worlds is a moving and groundbreaking examination of African-descended people's Catholic popular religiosities and practices in one of the most important sites of the early modern African diaspora: eighteenth-century Colombia. Impressively stitching together archival fragments across eighteenth-century Afro-Colombia, Fisk manages the seemingly impossible task of centering the interior lives of people of African descent as they created religious and sacramental Catholic knowledge 'on the move.' An instant classic.' Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Part I. Black Geographies; 1. African diasporic worlds; 2. Healing and ritual on the move; Part II. Religion in Place; 3. Black catholic knowledge in the Caribbean; 4. Spiritual pasture in the Pacific; Part III. In the Interstices; 5. Administering the sacraments; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.