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4 produkter
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
Inbunden, 2022
526 kr
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Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of …
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Inbunden, 2019
1117 kr
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This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of …
Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Häftad, 2017
400 kr
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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile …
Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
E-bok, 2014
286 kr
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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cécile …
