Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Sainthood and historical memory -- Claver's ministry for slaveocracy -- Claver as race-making ally of antiblackness supremacy -- The racialized humility of Peter Claver -- Coercive kindness : reconsidering Claver "from below" -- The racialized humility of Saint Martín de Porres -- Catholic sainthood and the afterlife of slavery -- Venerable Pierre Toussaint and the search for fugitive saints -- Toward a fugitive hagiography |
Summary |
"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. 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."--Back cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Claver, Pedro, Saint, 1580-1654.
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Martín, de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639
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Toussaint, Pierre, 1766-1853.
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SUBJECT |
Claver, Pedro, Saint, 1580-1654 fast |
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Martín, de Porres, Saint, 1579-1639 fast |
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Toussaint, Pierre, 1766-1853 fast |
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Catholic Church -- History.
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SUBJECT |
Catholic Church fast |
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Slavery and the church.
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Slavery and the church -- South America -- History
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Slavery and the church -- North America -- History
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Christian saints -- Attributes.
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Christian saints -- North America
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Christian saints -- South America
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Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
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Enslaved persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
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Slavery -- South America -- History
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Slavery -- North America -- History
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Christian hagiography.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Christian hagiography
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Christian saints
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Christian saints -- Attributes
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Fugitive slaves
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Slavery
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Slavery and the church
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Enslaved persons
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New York (State) -- New York
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North America
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South America
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781506416731 |
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150641673X |
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