Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
ISBN
9781108367578
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CONTENTS
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
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