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  title info:
    title: Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
    sub title: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
  name:
    name part: Dawson, Kevin
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      role term: contributor.
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  name:
    name part: Dewulf, Jeroen
    role:
      role term: contributor.
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  name:
    name part: Ferreira Furtado, Junia
    role:
      role term: contributor.
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      role term: ctb
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  name:
    name part: Fromont, Cécile
    role:
      role term: contributor.
    role:
      role term: ctb
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      role term: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
  name:
    name part: Fromont, Cécile
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Iyanaga, Michael
    role:
      role term: contributor.
    role:
      role term: ctb
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      role term: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
  name:
    name part: Stewart, Dianne M.
    role:
      role term: contributor.
    role:
      role term: ctb
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      role term: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
  name:
    name part: Valerio, Miguel A.
    role:
      role term: contributor.
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      role term: ctb
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      role term: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
  name:
    name part: Voigt, Lisa
    role:
      role term: contributor.
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  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (224 pages) : 10 color/6 black and white illustrations
  abstract: This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the long-held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or else transformed its religious rituals into syncretic objects of stealthy resistance. In cities and on plantations throughout the Americas, men and women of African birth or descent staged mock battles against heathens, elected Christian queens and kings with great pageantry, and gathered in festive rituals to express their devotion to saints. Many of these traditions endure in the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume draw connections between these Afro-Catholic festivals--observed from North America to South America and the Caribbean--and their precedents in the early modern kingdom of Kongo, one of the main regions of origin of men and women enslaved in the New World. This transatlantic perspective offers a useful counterpoint to the Yoruba focus prevailing in studies of African diasporic religions and reveals how Kongo-infused Catholicism constituted a site for the formation of black Atlantic tradition. Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas complicates the notion of Christianity as a European tool of domination and enhances our comprehension of the formation and trajectory of black religious culture on the American continent. It will be of great interest to scholars of African diaspora, religion, Christianity, and performance. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Kevin Dawson, Jeroen Dewulf, Junia Ferreira Furtado, Michael Iyanaga, Dianne M. Stewart, Miguel A. Valerio, and Lisa Voigt.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition -- Part 1 Ritual Battles from the Kongo Kingdom to the Americas -- 1 Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans -- 2 Moros e Christianos Ritualized Naval Battles: Baptizing American Waters with African Spiritual Meaning -- 3 A Mexican Sangamento? The First Afro-Christian Performance in the Americas -- Part 2 America's Black Kings and Diplomatic Representation -- 4 Representing an African King in Brazil -- 5 Black Ceremonies in Perspective: Brazil and Dahomey in the Eighteenth Century -- Part 3 Reconsidering Primary Sources -- 6 Envisioning Brazil's Afro-Christian Congados: The Black King and Queen Festival Lithograph of Johann Moritz Rugendas -- 7 The Orisa House That Afro-Catholics Built: Africana Antecedents to Yoruba Religious Formation in Trinidad -- Part 4 Aurality and Diasporic Traditions -- 8 On Hearing Africas in the Americas: Domestic Celebrations for Catholic Saints as Afro-Diasporic Religious Tradition -- Contributors -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: ed. by Cécile Fromont.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
    geographic code: s------
  subject:
    topic: African diaspora
  subject:
    topic: Africans
    geographic: America
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Black people
    geographic: America
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Fasts and feasts
    geographic: America
    topic: Catholic Church
  subject:
    topic: Africains
    geographic: Pays étrangers
  subject:
    topic: Africains
    geographic: Amérique
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Fêtes religieuses
    geographic: Amérique
    topic: Église catholique
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Christianity
    topic: Catholic
  subject:
    topic: African diaspora
  subject:
    topic: Africans
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Black people
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Fasts and feasts
    topic: Catholic Church
  subject:
    geographic: America
  classification: E29.N3 A555 2019eb
  classification: 304.8096
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Africana Religions ; 2
  identifier: 9780271084367
  identifier: 0271084367
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 210729
    record change date: 20250425172123.2
    record identifier: in00005643593
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng