Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
ISBN-10
1108421210
ISBN-13
9781108421218
Category
History
Pages
342
Language
English
Published
2019-11-30
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Erin Kathleen Rowe

Description

This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

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