Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Subtitle: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Apr 24, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780271083292
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Africana Religions)