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The art of conversion: Christian visual culture in the kingdom of Kongo

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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.

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    Chapel Hill: published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

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    1500-1900

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    • 9781469618715
    • 1469641240
    • 9781469641249
    • 1469618729
    • 1469618710
    • 9781469618722

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