Black Catholicism

This roundtable features six scholarly assessments of the historical and theoretical challenges that emerge when we consider the participation of African and African-descended peoples in the Catholic tradition. The subject of Black Catholicism is garnering new attention from researchers for several reasons. Although the presence of Christianity in West-Central Africa is usually associated with European conquest and colonialism, it is instructive to consider that the Kingdom of Kongo voluntarily adopted Christianity—specifically Catholicism—in the early 1500s as its official religion. In fact, the Kingdom of Kongo became an official diocese, operating the of that Catholicism in the of and and and in of and to that of in the from West-Central Africa as and the official of and that Catholicism to and the of in the the in the an that the of and with and that the that in to in and In the in Catholic an to in the in African-descended peoples to the of for as of Although to with This it is Catholicism that the of Black in the that is of for roundtable the of Catholicism in the as the and the and the of the and of the the of Catholicism and African to consider theoretical in the of Catholicism of roundtable for participation in the and the for African-descended historical with This for the Catholic to and we to consider the and the for the and of Black Christianity in its to the from the of Catholicism and to the of the of the of the when from to the and and with in Africa and the The European presence in the in and as as the of Catholic and of to that in with the and that 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