Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvErin Kathleen Rowe,Maryland) Rowe, Erin Kathleen (The Johns Hopkins University

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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Spanish and Portuguese monarchs launched global campaigns for territory and trade. This process spurred two efforts that reshaped the world: missions to spread Christianity to the four corners of the globe, and the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. These efforts joined in unexpected ways to give rise to black saints. Erin Kathleen Rowe presents the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. By exploring race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, she provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority. Rowe transforms our understanding of global devotional patterns and their effects on early modern societies by looking at previously unstudied sculptures and paintings of black saints, examining the impact of black lay communities, and analysing controversies unfolding in the church about race, moral potential, enslavement, and salvation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-12
Mått178 x 252 x 20 mm
Vikt850 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor316
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108421218

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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on terminology; Introduction; Part I. Devotion: 1. The emergence of black saints; 2. Salvation, black confraternities, and saints in global Catholicism; 3. 'Black like me': community formation and white backlash; Part II. Illumination: 4. Beautiful blackness: representing black saints in Baroque sculpture; 5. Brilliant blackness: hagiography and metaphors of light; 6. The practice of humility and spiritual authority in the lives of black women; Afterlife; Bibliography.

'Black Saints in Early Modern Catholicism shifts our framings but also the optics for conceiving of early-modern black religiosity. An impressive project that conceptually and methodologically engages Black Catholicism in a refreshing manner. A deeply rewarding study for readers of early-modern Europe and Latin America's past.' Herman L. Bennett, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York