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The art of conversion [Chri...
Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practised Christianity, actively participating in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm on a par with European monarchies. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by war and the Atlantic slave trade, and finally narrates its unravelling as 19th-century European colonialism penetrated Africa
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monografia Rebiun26452943 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun26452943 m o d cr |||||||nn|n 140828s2014 ncu ob 001 0 eng d 9781469618739 1469618737 1469618729 9781469618722 9781469618715 1469618710 UPSA ocn899261580 P@U eng pn P@U YDXCP OCLCO JSTOR COO NT OCLCQ EBLCP IDEBK OCLCQ ELW UKOUP VLB OCLCQ MERUC OCLCA OCLCF VTS OTZ OCLCQ STF LEAUB OCLCQ LOY UNAV 276.75106 23 Fromont, Cecile The art of conversion Recurso electrónico] Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo Cecile Fromont Chapel Hill Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2014 Chapel Hill Chapel Hill Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1 recurso electrónico 1 recurso electrónico EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Sangamentos : performing the advent of Kongo Christianity -- Under the sign of the cross in the Kingdom of Kongo : religious conversion and visual correlation -- The fabric of power, wealth, and devotion : clothing and regalia of the Christian Kongo -- Negotiating time and space : architecture, rituals, and power in the Christian Kongo -- From Catholic kingdom to the heart of darkness : the fate of Kongo Christianity in the nineteenth century Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practised Christianity, actively participating in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm on a par with European monarchies. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by war and the Atlantic slave trade, and finally narrates its unravelling as 19th-century European colonialism penetrated Africa Forma de acceso: World Wide Web