Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-42121-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Spanish and Portuguese monarchs launched global campaigns for territory and trade. This process spurred two efforts that reshaped the world: missions to spread Christianity to the four corners of the globe, and the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. These efforts joined in unexpected ways to give rise to black saints. Erin Kathleen Rowe presents the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. By exploring race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, she provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority. Rowe transforms our understanding of global devotional patterns and their effects on early modern societies by looking at previously unstudied sculptures and paintings of black saints, examining the impact of black lay communities, and analysing controversies unfolding in the church about race, moral potential, enslavement, and salvation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowe, Erin Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on terminology; Introduction; Part I. Devotion: 1. The emergence of black saints; 2. Salvation, black confraternities, and saints in global Catholicism; 3. 'Black like me': community formation and white backlash; Part II. Illumination: 4. Beautiful blackness: representing black saints in Baroque sculpture; 5. Brilliant blackness: hagiography and metaphors of light; 6. The practice of humility and spiritual authority in the lives of black women; Afterlife; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Rowe, Erin Kathleen
Erin Kathleen Rowe is Associate Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. She is the author of Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain (2011), and co-author of the edited volume The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Cambridge, 2017).