Fugitive saints : Catholicism and the politics of slavery / by Katie Walker Grimes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2017Description: xxiv, 179 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1506416721
  • 9781506416724
Other title:
  • Catholicism and the politics of slavery
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 270.08/625 23
LOC classification:
  • HT917.C3G75 2017
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-176) and index.

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.

"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.

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