Black saints in early modern global Catholicism /
In the spring of 2015, I found myself standing outside the walls that led to a courtyard in front of a local church. The doors were supposed to be open according to the hours provided by the tourist office; after waiting a while, I went in search of help. Around the corner was a municipal library, w...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The emergence of black saints
- Salvation, black confraternities, and saints in global Catholicism
- "Black like me": community formation and white backlash
- Beautiful blackness: representing black saints in baroque sculpture
- Brilliant blackness: hagiographic metaphors of light and dark
- The practice of humility and spiritual authority in the lives of black holy women.