Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

ISBN-13: 9781108421218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 316 str.

Erin Kathleen Rowe

Opis

This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

Recenzje

'… this book is an indispensable contribution to Black Catholic history.' Bianca Lopez, Comptes Rendus

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on terminology; Introduction; Part I. Devotion: 1. The emergence of black saints; 2. Salvation, black confraternities, and saints in global Catholicism; 3. 'Black like me': community formation and white backlash; Part II. Illumination: 4. Beautiful blackness: representing black saints in Baroque sculpture; 5. Brilliant blackness: hagiography and metaphors of light; 6. The practice of humility and spiritual authority in the lives of black women; Afterlife; Bibliography.