Black Bride of Christ

Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2018
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-2104-0 (ISBN)

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This volume, the first English translation of the Teresa de Santo Domingo, born with the name Chicaba, was a slave captured in the territory known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese navigators and slave traffickers as La Mina Baja del Oro, the part of West Africa that extends through present-day eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria. Upon the death of her Spanish master, she was freed to enter a convent. The Dominicans of La Penitencia in Salamanca accepted her after she had been rejected by several other monasteries because of her skin color. Even in her own religious community, race put her at a disadvantage in the highly stratified social hierarchy of monastic houses of the era. Her life story is known to us through a document entitled Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, which is the foundational documentary evidence in the case for beatification of this nun, and as such it is the most significant and comprehensive source of information about her.

This volume, the first English translation of the Compendio, is a hagiography, an example of a biographical genre that recounts the lives and describes the spiritual practices of holy people—saints officially canonized by the Church, informally recognized by local devotees, or respected ecclesiastical leaders. The effort to have Chicaba canonized continues today, as Fra-Molinero and Houchins explore in their introduction to the volume.

Sue E. Houchins is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Bates College and editor of Spiritual Narratives. Baltasar Fra-Molinero is Professor of Latin American Studies at Bates College.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2018
Übersetzer	Sue E. Houchins, Baltasar Fra-Molinero
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Tennessee
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 254 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8265-2104-5 / 0826521045
ISBN-13	978-0-8265-2104-0 / 9780826521040
Zustand	Neuware