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Fugitive Saints: Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery

Fugitive Saints: Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery

Walker Grimes, Katie

Paperback

General Christianity

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1506416721
ISBN13: 9781506416724
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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