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Paperback Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition Book

ISBN: 0271083301

ISBN13: 9780271083308

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...

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