The Politics of Prayer
White American Catholicism and “Negro” Sainthood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20209746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R L Green (College of the Holy Cross, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 245-256 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Black Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-9948 • E-ISSN: 1743-1670 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14769948.2017.1359010 |
| OpenAlex | W2744150078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article interrogates the way in which Western European and American Catholic clerics, theologians, and writers sought to use both prayer and the memory of an Afro-Hispanic holy man, Saint Martín de Porres, as a resource for converting African Americans to Catholicism in the twentieth century. It demonstrates how intellectuals and organizers within the Catholic Church appealed to traditional notions of the sacred and popular ideas about race in the formation of religious ritual
Art · Political science · Politics · Prayer · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |