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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Sangamentos : performing the advent of Kongo Christianity -- |t Under the sign of the cross in the Kingdom of Kongo : religious conversion and visual correlation -- |t The fabric of power, wealth, and devotion : clothing and regalia of the Christian Kongo -- Negotiating time and space : architecture, rituals, and power in the Christian Kongo -- |t From Catholic kingdom to the heart of darkness : the fate of Kongo Christianity in the nineteenth century. |
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