The Immersion of Catholic Christianity in Kalunga

This piece reflects on the engagement of African-descended people with Catholicism since the fifteenth century in West-Central Africa and the Atlantic diaspora. Rather than look at the process within a Christianity-centered model, I reorient this history within an interpretive framework that I call...

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Main Author: Brown, Ras Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2014
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 246-255
Further subjects:B kalunga
B South Carolina Lowcountry
B Catholicism
B Virgin Mary
B Congo
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