The art of conversion [electronic resource] : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo / Cecile Fromont.

Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practised Christianity, actively participating in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm on a par with European monarchies. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Fromont, Cécile (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014.
Subjects:	Christian art and symbolism > Kongo Kingdom. Christianity > Kongo Kingdom. Kongo Kingdom > Religious life and customs. Kongo Kingdom > Church history. Christian art and symbolism. Christianity. Africa > Kongo Kingdom. Church history.