TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fromont,Cecile
TI  - The art of conversion: Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo 
SN  - 9781469618739
AV  - BR1470.K66 F76 2014eb
U1  - 276.75106 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
KW  - Christian art and symbolism
KW  - Kongo Kingdom
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Congo (Royaume)
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Africa
KW  - West
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Church history
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by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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