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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and...
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Sangamentos : performing the advent of Kongo Christianity
- Under the sign of the cross in the Kingdom of Kongo : religious conversion and visual correlation
- 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
- From Catholic kingdom to the heart of darkness : the fate of Kongo Christianity in the nineteenth century.