Black Catholic Worlds

Bethan Fisk is Lecturer in Colonial Latin American History at the University of Bristol. This is her first book.

• Introduction: Part I. Black Geographies; 1. African diasporic worlds; 2. Healing and ritual on the move; Part II. Religion in Place; 3. Black catholic knowledge in the Caribbean; 4. Spiritual pasture in the Pacific; Part III. In the Interstices; 5. Administering the sacraments; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

'Black Catholic Worlds is a moving and groundbreaking examination of African-descended people's Catholic popular religiosities and practices in one of the most important sites of the early modern African diaspora: eighteenth-century Colombia. Impressively stitching together archival fragments across eighteenth-century Afro-Colombia, Fisk manages the seemingly impossible task of centering the interior lives of people of African descent as they created religious and sacramental Catholic knowledge 'on the move.' An instant classic.' Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University