Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas: performance, representation, and the making of Black Atlantic tradition
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 perf...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Africana religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Americas
/ Blacks
/ Religious festival
/ Catholicism
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Blacks (America)
Religion
B Africans (America) Religion B African Diaspora B Fasts and feasts (America) Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | 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. "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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0271083298 |