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The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom o f Kongo / Cecile Fromont.

By: Material type: TextText Chapel Hill : published for the Omohundro Institute of Early Amer ican History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, [2014]Description: xviii, 283 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781469618715 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 276.75106  23
Contents:
Sangamentos : performing the advent of Kongo Christianity -- Unde r 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 sp ace : architecture, rituals, and power in the Christian Kongo -- Fro m Catholic kingdom to the heart of darkness : the fate of Kongo Christi anity in the nineteenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sangamentos : performing the advent of Kongo Christianity -- Unde r 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 sp ace : architecture, rituals, and power in the Christian Kongo -- Fro m Catholic kingdom to the heart of darkness : the fate of Kongo Christi anity in the nineteenth century.

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