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The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
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- Creator
- Cécile Fromont
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1469641240, 9781469618715, 1469618710, 1469618729, 9781469618739, 9798890847294, 9781469618722, 1469618737
- OCLC
- ocn899261580, ocn875742301
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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