The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fromont, Cécile (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Text in English.
Published:	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]
Subjects:	Christianity > Kongo Kingdom. Kongo Kingdom > Church history. Kongo Kingdom > Religious life and customs. Christian art and symbolism > Kongo Kingdom.

Table of Contents:

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.