Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas :  performance, representation, and the making of Black Atlantic tradition / 
edited by Cécile Fromont. 
 - University Park, Pennsylvania :  The Pennsylvania State University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) :  illustrations (some color). 
 - Africana religions .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Sangamentos on Congo Square? : Kongolese warriors, brotherhood kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans /  Moros e Christianos ritualized naval battles : baptizing American waters with African spiritual meaning /  A Mexican sangamento? : the first Afro-Christian performance in the Americas /  Representing an African king in Brazil /  Black ceremonies in perspective : Brazil and Dahomey in the eighteenth century /  Envisioning Brazil's Afro-Christian congados : the black king and queen festival lithograph of Johann Moritz Rugendas /  The Orisa house that Afro-Catholics built : Africana antecedents to Yoruba religious formation in Trinidad /  On hearing Africas in the Americas : domestic celebrations for Catholic saints as Afro-diasporic religious tradition /  Jeroen Dewulf --  Kevin Dawson --  Miguel A. Valerio --  Lisa Voigt --  Junia Ferreira Furtado --  Cécile Fromont --  Dianne M. Stewart --  Michael Iyanaga. 
<br/><br/> "Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo"--Provided by publisher. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271084343 9780271084367 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Africans--Religion.--America<br/>Black people--Religion.--America<br/>Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church.--America<br/>African diaspora.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E29  / .A376 2019