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'Black Saints in Early Modern Catholicism shifts our framings but also the optics for conceiving of early-modern black religiosity. An impressive project that conceptually and methodologically engages Black Catholicism in a refreshing manner. A deeply rewarding study for readers of early-modern Europe and Latin America's past.' Herman L. Bennett, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York 'Black Saints is the first full-length study of this neglected phenomenon; it is a major contribution to the study of global Christianity in the early modern centuries.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University 'This exciting new book sheds new light upon the intersections of early modern ideas about race with Catholic belief and practice. Drawing upon extensive archival research and an extraordinary collection of heretofore unstudied images, Rowe uncovers the central role of Afro-Iberians in shaping Catholic devotional culture around the globe.' A. Katie Stirling-Harris, University of California, Davis 'After a quest which has taken her (and her photographer father) from Palermo to Peru, via Portugal and Spain, Erin Kathleen Rowe has written and richly illustrated a book that will become essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how sacred blackness was constructed and circulated in a Transatlantic world.' Simon Ditchfield, University of York `Black Saints in Early Modern Catholicism shifts our framings but also the optics for conceiving of early-modern black religiosity. An impressive project that conceptually and methodologically engages Black Catholicism in a refreshing manner. A deeply rewarding study for readers of early-modern Europe and Latin America's past.' Herman L. Bennett, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York `Black Saints is the first full-length study of this neglected phenomenon; it is a major contribution to the study of global Christianity in the early modern centuries.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University `This exciting new book sheds new light upon the intersections of early modern ideas about race with Catholic belief and practice. Drawing upon extensive archival research and an extraordinary collection of heretofore unstudied images, Rowe uncovers the central role of Afro-Iberians in shaping Catholic devotional culture around the globe.' A. Katie Stirling-Harris, University of California, Davis `After a quest which has taken her (and her photographer father) from Palermo to Peru, via Portugal and Spain, Erin Kathleen Rowe has written and richly illustrated a book that will become essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how sacred blackness was constructed and circulated in a Transatlantic world.' Simon Ditchfield, University of York

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Erin Kathleen Rowe is Associate Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. She is the author of Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain (2011), and co-author of the edited volume The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Cambridge, 2017).

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