Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
(Part of the Africana Religions Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271083301
ISBN13:9780271083308
Release Date:April 2021
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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