Description |
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Africana religions
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Africana religions.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Africans -- America -- Religion.
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Africans. |
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America. |
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Religion. |
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Black people -- America -- Religion.
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Black people. |
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Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church -- America.
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Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church. |
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African diaspora.
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African diaspora. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Fromont, Cécile, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas 9780271083292 (DLC) 2019001030 (OCoLC)1084620480 |
ISBN |
9780271084343 (electronic book) |
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0271084340 (electronic book) |
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9780271084367 |
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0271084367 |
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9780271083292 |
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0271083298 |
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