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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erin Kathleen Rowe is Associate Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. She is the author of Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain (2011), and co-author of the edited volume The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Cambridge, 2017).
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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.
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.
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