The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo by Cécile Fromont

The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

Cécile Fromont

328 pages 2014

3 editions

nonfiction historical history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpubli...

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