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
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
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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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