Fugitive Saints e-bog
173,39 DKK
(inkl. moms 216,74 DKK)
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 ...
E-bog
173,39 DKK
Forlag
Fortress Press
Udgivet
1 april 2017
Længde
160 sider
Genrer
HRAX
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781506416731
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.