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Title Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas : performance, representation, and the making of Black Atlantic tradition / edited by Cécile Fromont.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Africana religions
Africana religions.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Africans -- America -- Religion.
Africans.
America.
Religion.
Black people -- America -- Religion.
Black people.
Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church -- America.
Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church.
African diaspora.
African diaspora.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Fromont, Cécile, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas 9780271083292 (DLC) 2019001030 (OCoLC)1084620480
ISBN 9780271084343 (electronic book)
0271084340 (electronic book)
9780271084367
0271084367
9780271083292
0271083298