How Long to Read Afro-Atlantic Catholics

How Long Does it Take to Read Afro-Atlantic Catholics?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 18 minutes to read Afro-Atlantic Catholics by Jeroen Dewulf

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth century. Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversation by focusing on the enduring legacy of seventeenth-century Afro-Atlantic Catholics in the broader history of African American Christianity. With homelands in parts of Africa with historically strong Portuguese influence, such as the Cape Verde Islands, São Tomé, and Kongo, these Africans embraced variants of early modern Portuguese Catholicism that they would take with them to the Americas as part of the forced migration that was the transatlantic slave trade. Their impact upon the development of Black religious, social, and political activity in North America would be felt from the southern states as far north as what would become New York. Dewulf’s analysis focuses on the historical documentation of Afro-Atlantic Catholic rituals, devotions, and social structures. Of particular importance are brotherhood practices, which were critical in the dissemination of Afro-Atlantic Catholic culture among Black communities, a culture that was pre-Tridentine in nature and wary of external influences. These fraternal Black mutual-aid and burial society structures were critically important to the development and resilience of Black Christianity in America through periods of changing social conditions. Afro-Atlantic Catholics shows how a sizable minority of enslaved Africans actively transformed the American Christian landscape and would lay a distinctly Afro-Catholic foundation for African American religious traditions today. This book will appeal to scholars in the history of Christianity, African American and African diaspora studies, and Iberian studies.

How long is Afro-Atlantic Catholics?

Afro-Atlantic Catholics by Jeroen Dewulf is 427 pages long, and a total of 109,739 words.

This makes it 144% the length of the average book. It also has 134% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Afro-Atlantic Catholics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 59 minutes to read Afro-Atlantic Catholics aloud.

What Reading Level is Afro-Atlantic Catholics?

Afro-Atlantic Catholics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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