Bibliograph

Fugitive saints, Catholicism and the politics of slavery, Katie Walker Grimes

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Fugitive saints, Catholicism and the politics of slavery, Katie Walker Grimes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fugitive saints

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Katie Walker Grimes

Sub title

Catholicism and the politics of slavery

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

Table Of 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

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