Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians by Jeroen Dewulf

A set of esteemed critics engage the award-winning Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians (Notre Dame 2022), by Jeroen Dewulf (Berkeley: Dept. of German, the Folklore Program, and the Center for Portuguese Studies). This book's bold and consequential argument explores the pre-tridentine Luso-African Catholic origins of a variety of Black Christian forms in the United States and beyond. Dewulf will be on hand to respond and then conversation will open to the audience.