Author: Katie Walker Grimes
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 150641673X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver, a seventeenth-century Spanish missionary to Colombia, as “the saint of the slave trade,” and extols Martín de Porres as the patron saint of mixed race people. But in truth, their sainthoods have upheld anti-blackness much more than they have undermined it. Habituated by anti-blackness, the church has struggled to perceive racial holiness accurately. In the ongoing cause to canonize Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian-born former slave, the church continues to enact these bad racial habits. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it.
Fugitive Saints
Author: Katie Walker Grimes
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 150641673X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver, a seventeenth-century Spanish missionary to Colombia, as “the saint of the slave trade,” and extols Martín de Porres as the patron saint of mixed race people. But in truth, their sainthoods have upheld anti-blackness much more than they have undermined it. Habituated by anti-blackness, the church has struggled to perceive racial holiness accurately. In the ongoing cause to canonize Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian-born former slave, the church continues to enact these bad racial habits. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 150641673X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver, a seventeenth-century Spanish missionary to Colombia, as “the saint of the slave trade,” and extols Martín de Porres as the patron saint of mixed race people. But in truth, their sainthoods have upheld anti-blackness much more than they have undermined it. Habituated by anti-blackness, the church has struggled to perceive racial holiness accurately. In the ongoing cause to canonize Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian-born former slave, the church continues to enact these bad racial habits. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it.
The Popes and Slavery
Author: Joel S. Panzer
Publisher: Saint Pauls/Alba House
ISBN: 9780818907647
Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book reveals how the Church has in the past and still does speak up decisively to halt the infamous trade in human flesh.
Publisher: Saint Pauls/Alba House
ISBN: 9780818907647
Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book reveals how the Church has in the past and still does speak up decisively to halt the infamous trade in human flesh.
Slavery of the Saints
Author:
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN: 9780873987394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN: 9780873987394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks
Author: Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Slaves of the Lord
Author: Vidya Dehejia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Lives and poetry of Tamil saints.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Lives and poetry of Tamil saints.
Christian Slavery
Author: Katharine Gerbner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294904
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion. When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal. Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294904
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion. When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal. Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
Slaves, Sinners and Saints
Author: Cedric Barber
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9781901670875
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9781901670875
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
Author: Erin Kathleen Rowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book 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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book 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.
All Oppression Shall Cease
Author: Kellerman SJ, Christopher J.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608339513
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"A history of Catholic responses to slavery and abolitionism"--
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608339513
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"A history of Catholic responses to slavery and abolitionism"--
Bakhita
Author: Roberto Italo Zanini
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586176897
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Recounts the life of Josephine Bakhita who was kidnapped near Darfu by Arab slave traders and suffered brutal and humiliating treatment until she was bought by an Italian and taken to Venice, Italy, where she later became a Catholic and a nun.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586176897
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Recounts the life of Josephine Bakhita who was kidnapped near Darfu by Arab slave traders and suffered brutal and humiliating treatment until she was bought by an Italian and taken to Venice, Italy, where she later became a Catholic and a nun.