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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Beteiligte: Fromont, Cécile 1980- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2019]
In:Jahr: 2019
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Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Africana religions
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Amerika / Schwarze / Religiöses Fest / Katholizismus / Geschichte
weitere Schlagwörter:B Blacks (America) Religion
B Africans (America) Religion
B African Diaspora
B Fasts and feasts (America) Catholic Church
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0271083298