Memorializing the Unsung: Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism
Elochukwu Uzukwu C.S.Sp., "Memorializing the Unsung: Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism "
English | ISBN: 0271096985 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0271096985 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
By the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion, then, but reinforcement; the Capuchins sought to establish the sacraments and a line to Rome in a lay-led church already suffused with an enduring, creative, and complex theological culture. In Memorializing the Unsung,ElochukwuUzukwu uses the framework of this “ancient” Kongo Catholicism to explore European dependence on enslaved Kongo Catholics and the unconscionable Capuchin and Spiritan participation in the slave trade at large―a practice denounced by the lone voices of Capuchin Epifanio de Moirans and Spiritan Alexandre Monnet.
Reconstructing the church that missionaries and Kongo Catholics built together on the foundations of local religion,
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