Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas : : Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition /

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas : : Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition / / ed. by Cécile Fromont.

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 Catholic-b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Dawson, Kevin,
Dewulf, Jeroen,
Ferreira Furtado, Junia,
Fromont, Cécile,
Iyanaga, Michael,
Stewart, Dianne M.,
Valerio, Miguel A.,
Voigt, Lisa,
HerausgeberIn:
Fromont, Cécile,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Africana Religions ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 color/6 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
  • Part 1 Ritual Battles from the Kongo Kingdom to the Americas
  • 1 Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans
  • 2 Moros e Christianos Ritualized Naval Battles: Baptizing American Waters with African Spiritual Meaning
  • 3 A Mexican Sangamento? The First Afro-Christian Performance in the Americas
  • Part 2 America's Black Kings and Diplomatic Representation
  • 4 Representing an African King in Brazil
  • 5 Black Ceremonies in Perspective: Brazil and Dahomey in the Eighteenth Century
  • Part 3 Reconsidering Primary Sources
  • 6 Envisioning Brazil's Afro-Christian Congados: The Black King and Queen Festival Lithograph of Johann Moritz Rugendas
  • 7 The Orisa House That Afro-Catholics Built: Africana Antecedents to Yoruba Religious Formation in Trinidad
  • Part 4 Aurality and Diasporic Traditions
  • 8 On Hearing Africas in the Americas: Domestic Celebrations for Catholic Saints as Afro-Diasporic Religious Tradition
  • Contributors
  • Index

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