Fugitive saints
Subtitle: Catholicism and the politics of slavery
By: Katie Walker Grimes
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781506416724
Subjects: Christian hagiography; Fugitive slaves; Attributes; Slavery and the church; Christian saints; Catholic Church; History
Description: "How should the Catholic Church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sainthood and historical memory; title: Claver's ministry for slaveocracy; title: Claver as race-making ally of antiblackness supremacy; title: The racialized humility of Peter Claver; title: Coercive kindness : reconsidering Claver "from below"; title: The racialized humility of Saint Martín de Porres; title: Catholic sainthood and the afterlife of slavery; title: Venerable Pierre Toussaint and the search for fugitive saints; title: Toward a fugitive hagiography.