TY - BOOK AU - Fromont, Cecile, TI - The art of conversion: Christian visual culture in the Kingdom o f Kongo SN - 9781469618715 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 276.75106 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - published for the Omohundro Institute of Early Amer ican History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill KW - Christianity KW - Kongo Kingdom KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Church history KW - Religious life and customs N1 - 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 ER -