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Chargement... The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706par John Thornton
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This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, and criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries in her country for not supporting black saints. The movement was largely a peace movement, with a following among the common people, attempting to stop the devastating cycle of civil wars between contenders for the Kongolese throne. Thornton supplies background information on the Kingdom, the development of Catholicism in Kongo since 1491, the nature and role of local warfare in the Atlantic slave trade, and contemporary everyday life, as well as sketching the lives of some local personalities. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)967.51History and Geography Africa Central Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa); Rwanda & Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa -- former Zaire)Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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However, though the topic itself was intriguing, Thornton's stylistic and organisational decisions made this a book that I struggled to finish, though it's only about 200 pages long. He disdains oral and anthropological evidence in favour of working from written commentary from European sources. It's a thoroughly Eurocentric approach, compounded by the fact that when those sources "quote" a Kongolese speaker, Thornton changes those indirect speech remarks to direct quotations, often with remarks on tone such as "he said sarcastically." It makes for a dramatic narrative, but it's jarring, makes pretty much everything Thornton writes suspect, and requires us to view everything through a European lense. Interesting introduction to what is a new topic to me, but very flawed. ( )