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The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) Kindle Edition
The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOmohundro Institute and UNC Press
- Publication dateDecember 19, 2014
- File size19297 KB
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Editorial Reviews
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A valuable reference work for anyone interested in religious, Christian, and precolonial African art and material culture.--Catholic Historical Review
Beautifully produced and accessibly priced edition will reward the attentions of lay connoisseurs as well as of scholars in all the academic disciplines engaging Africa's past.--African Studies Review
An impressive, ground-breaking work.--ARLIS/NA Reviews
Swords, crosses, caps, red sashes, pendants, and staffs whirled across the sacred landscape of early Kongo in celebration and service of a new Christianity. This book masterfully depicts the blended visual and material world that elite Kongolese created as they shaped their encounter with Catholic Europe and forged a place for themselves in a global Christendom. Kongo Christianity appears here for the first time as a highly innovative, aesthetic practice that rewove connections between life and death, king and people, kingdom and world.--Catherine A. Molineux, Vanderbilt University
A detailed account of how the visual arts were instrumental in [the Kingdom of Kongo.]--Burlington Magazine
A monumental contribution to scholarship on Kongo Christianity as well as cultural change in the Atlantic world more broadly. She challenges historians to think more deeply about the way in which history can defy easy categorization as continuity or change. . . . Her beautiful prose and evocative use of language powerfully re-create the multisensory rituals of Kongo Christianity. Perhaps most important, Fromont reminds us that Africans were always active participants in their history, the legacy of which resonates across the Atlantic world today.--William and Mary Quarterly
Provides relevant information to the conversion of the Kongo Kingdom to Christianity by providing numerous visual sources to support her argument. . . . Provides previously untapped sources to bring forward a new theory on the conversion of the Kongo and the changes associated with the kingdom's new religion.--Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians
Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and lavishly illustrated, The Art of Conversionis one of the best books ever published about Central African religious history.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Fromont's study is a model of careful scholarship wedded to a well-crafted argument....This book is very likely to remain the starting point for any study of Kongo Christian art, and an important contribution to the understanding of its Christian history.--Social Sciences and Missions
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--Catherine A. Molineux, Vanderbilt University
"Using an impressive array of materials (objects, images, texts, and practices), Fromont deftly navigates the complex currents and trajectories of Kongo Christianity over several centuries ... Her work deepens and enriches our understandings of human spirituality and the making of cultures and faiths in eras of shifting political and economic powers."
--Henry John Drewal, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Few people realize that Kongo was a Christian kingdom. Cécile Fromont, using texts and especially images, reveals the complex ways that Africa and Europe met in Kongo and how Kongo made Christianity its own. A tour de force--splendidly documented, carefully argued, and lavishly illustrated."
--John Thornton, Boston University
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- ASIN : B00ZVF5YDW
- Publisher : Omohundro Institute and UNC Press (December 19, 2014)
- Publication date : December 19, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 19297 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 294 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1469641240
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,786,538 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #50 in African Art History
- #180 in History of Central Africa
- #251 in History of West Africa
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