The Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo Fromont, Cecile creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. ncu 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 monographic eng 1 online resource Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practised Christianity, actively participating in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm on a par with European monarchies. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by war and the Atlantic slave trade, and finally narrates its unravelling as 19th-century European colonialism penetrated Africa. 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. Cecile Fromont. Includes bibliographical references and index. f-ao--- f-cf--- f-cg--- Christian art and symbolism Kongo Kingdom Christianity Kongo Kingdom Kongo Kingdom Religious life and customs Kongo Kingdom Church history HISTORY Africa West RELIGION Christianity History BR1470.K66 F76 2014 276.75106 Fromont, Cecile. 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 (DLC) 2014034799 9781469618739 1469618737 1469618729 9781469618722 22573/cttbvhpjr JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4322235 http://site.ebrary.com/id/11149928 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965085 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469618722_Fromont http://www.myilibrary.com?id=929731 http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618739.001.0001 http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469618739/ http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4322235 http://site.ebrary.com/id/11149928 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965085 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469618722_Fromont http://www.myilibrary.com?id=929731 http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618739.001.0001 http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469618739/ P@U 140828 20200709060338.0 ocn899261580 eng