{"product_id":"black-bride-of-christ-sue-e-houchins-9780826521033","title":"Black Bride of Christ: Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain","description":"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, Chicaba 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 \u003ci\u003eCompendio de la vida ejemplar de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume, the first English translation of the \u003ci\u003eCompendio\u003c\/i\u003e, is a hagiography, an example of a biographical genre that recounts the lives and describes the spiritual practices of saints officially canonized by the Church, respected ecclesiastical leaders, or holy people informally recognized by local devotees. The effort to have Chicaba canonized continues today, as Fra-Molinero and Houchins explore in their introduction to the volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sue E. Houchins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826521037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826521033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Sue E. Houchins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44254743068927,"sku":"9780826521033","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b34d0cc-bee7-4994-929a-1ab4fa6cbf0c.jpg?v=1694614121","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-bride-of-christ-sue-e-houchins-9780826521033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}