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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 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.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781469618739
  • 1469618737
  • 1469618729
  • 9781469618722
  • 9798890847294
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Art of conversion.DDC classification:
  • 276.75106 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1470.K66 F76 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: 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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)965085

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

Text in English.